America's gothic fiction
Subtitle: the legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana
By: Dorothy Z. Baker.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814210604; 9780814291443
Subjects: Mather, Cotton, -- 1663-1728; Mather, Cotton, -- 1663-1728 -- Influence; American fiction -- History and criticism; Religion and literature; Puritan movements in literature; Horror tales, American -- History and criticism; Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States; Religion and literature -- United States -- History; National characteristics, American, in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: "We have seen strange things to day": the history and artistry of Cotton Mather's remarkables; title: "A wilderness of error": Edgar Allan Poe's revision of providential tropes; title: Cotton Mather as the "old New England grandmother": Harriet Beecher Stowe and the female historian; title: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the "singular mind" of Cotton Mather; title: "The story was in the gaps": Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Edith Wharton.