(print) viii, 161 p. ; 23 cm

"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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