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America's Gothic Fiction : The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana / by Baker, Dorothy Zayatz

Table of Contents: “…"We have seen strange things to day" : the history and artistry of Cotton Mather's remarkables -- "A wilderness of error" : Edgar Allan Poe's revision of providential tropes -- Cotton Mather as the "old New England grandmother" : Harriet Beecher Stowe and the female historian -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and the "singular mind" of Cotton Mather -- "The story was in the gaps" : Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Edith Wharton.…”
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America's Gothic Fiction : The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana / by Baker, Dorothy Zayatz

Table of Contents: “…"We have seen strange things to day" : the history and artistry of Cotton Mather's remarkables -- "A wilderness of error" : Edgar Allan Poe's revision of providential tropes -- Cotton Mather as the "old New England grandmother" : Harriet Beecher Stowe and the female historian -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and the "singular mind" of Cotton Mather -- "The story was in the gaps" : Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Edith Wharton.…”
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Madness : American Protestant reactions to mental illness across three centuries / by Vacek, Heather H., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Making theological sense out of suffering, sin, and sickness / Cotton Mather -- Christian vocation and the shape the secular profession / Benjamin Rush -- Advocating for the helpless, forgotten, and insane / Dorothea Dix -- Reclaiming religious authority in medicine / Anton Boisen -- A passionate plea to engage finds lukewarm reaction / Karl Menninger.…”
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Madness : American Protestant reactions to mental illness across three centuries / by Vacek, Heather H., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Making theological sense out of suffering, sin, and sickness / Cotton Mather -- Christian vocation and the shape the secular profession / Benjamin Rush -- Advocating for the helpless, forgotten, and insane / Dorothea Dix -- Reclaiming religious authority in medicine / Anton Boisen -- A passionate plea to engage finds lukewarm reaction / Karl Menninger.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

An American Body | Politic : A Deleuzian Approach / by Herzogenrath, Bernd, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Body/theory/politic : body-theory -- The Puritans' two bodies -- "'physics' of power" : phase transitions and turbulence in the Antinomian controversy -- Cotton Mather : the angel and the animalcula -- "I am the poet of little things" : Walt Whitman and minor poetics/politics -- A physical theory of heredity/heresy : the education of Henry Adams -- "A sonorous people" : techno-music and the joyful body-politic.…”
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An American Body | Politic : A Deleuzian Approach / by Herzogenrath, Bernd, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Body/theory/politic : body-theory -- The Puritans' two bodies -- "'physics' of power" : phase transitions and turbulence in the Antinomian controversy -- Cotton Mather : the angel and the animalcula -- "I am the poet of little things" : Walt Whitman and minor poetics/politics -- A physical theory of heredity/heresy : the education of Henry Adams -- "A sonorous people" : techno-music and the joyful body-politic.…”
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