{"product_id":"americas-gothic-fiction-the-legacy-of-magnalia-christi-americana-paperback","title":"America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDorothy Z. Baker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecretary to the Salem witch trials, Cotton Mather is the most reviled of our national historians. Yet James Russell Lowell admitted that \"with all his faults, that conceited old pedant contrived to make one of the most entertaining books ever written on this side of the water.\" In \u003ci\u003eAmerica's Gothic Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, Dorothy Z. Baker investigates the ways in which nineteenth-century authors Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, among others, look to Mather's \u003ci\u003eMagnalia Christi Americana\u003c\/i\u003e at critical moments in their work and refashion his historical accounts as gothic fiction.\u003cbr\u003e Cotton Mather's 1702 \u003ci\u003eMagnalia\u003c\/i\u003e captured the imagination of its readers more than any other colonial history and impressed Americans with its message of American exceptionalism and God's dramatic intervention on behalf of the country and its citizens. Poe, Stowe, and Hawthorne, who are rarely grouped together in literary studies, have radically divergent responses to Mather's theology, historiography, and literary forms. However, each takes up Mather's themes and forms and, in distinct ways, interrogates the providence tales in \u003ci\u003eMagnalia Christi Americana\u003c\/i\u003e as foundational statements about American history and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDorothy Z. Baker is associate professor of English at the University of Houston.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 170\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 29, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47938250113245,"sku":"9780814256091","price":43.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/SBR_1dOheN9780814256091.webp?v=1779177213","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/americas-gothic-fiction-the-legacy-of-magnalia-christi-americana-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}