Title: In defense of historical literature; essays on American history, autobiography, drama, and fiction.
Authors: Levin, David, 1924-1998
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Year: 1967
Subjects: American literature History and criticism; Literature and history.; United States Historiography.
Contents: The literary criticism of history -- The hazing of Cotton Mather : the creation of a biographical personality -- The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin : the Puritan experimenter in life and art -- Historical fact in fiction and drama : the Salem witchcraft trials -- Hawthorne's romances : the value of Puritan history -- Absalom, Absalom! : the problem of re-creating history.