Reading the Salem Witch Child

Reading the Salem Witch Child
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 9783030493042
ISBN-13 : 3030493040
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Book Synopsis Reading the Salem Witch Child by : Kristina West

Download or read book Reading the Salem Witch Child written by Kristina West and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the role of children in the Salem witch trials through a close reading of the many and varied narratives of the trials, including court records, contemporary and historical documents, fiction, drama, and poetry. Taking a critical theory approach to explore both what we might understand as a child in 1692 New England and to consider our adult investment in reading the child, Kristina West explores narratives of the afflicted girls and the many accused children whom are often absent or overlooked in histories, and considers how the trial structure is continually repeated in attempts to establish the respective guilt and innocence of these and other groups. This book also analyses later manuscripts and fictional rewritings of the trials to question the basis on which assumptions about the child in history are made, and to consider why such narratives of Salem’s children are still relevant now.


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