Salem Story Reading the Witch Trials of 1692

Name: Salem Story Reading the Witch Trials of 1692
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ISBN: 9780521558204

ISBN-10: 0521558204

ISBN-13: 9780521558204

Edition: 1995

Authors: Bernard Rosenthal, Albert Gelpi, Ross Posnock

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Salem Story engages the story of the Salem witch trials by contrasting an analysis of the surviving primary documentation with the way events of 1692 have been mythologised by our culture. Resisting the temptation to explain the Salem witch trials in the context of an inclusive theoretical framework, the book examines a variety of individual motives that converged to precipitate the witch-hunt. Of the many assumptions about the Salem witch trials, the most persistent is that they were instigated by a circle of hysterical girls. Through an analysis of what actually happened - by perusal of the primary materials with the close reading approach of a literary critic - a different picture…

Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/29/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English




Dark Eve



The girls of Salem



Boys and girls together



June 10, 1692



July 19, 1692



August 19, 1692



George Burroughs and the Mathers



September 22, 1692



Assessing an inextricable storm



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