Reinventing Cotton Mather in the American Renaissance
By Christopher D. Felker
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The author uses Thomas Robbins' 1820 edition of Mather's work to show how a Puritanical political sentiment prompted American Renaissance writers to address the implications of democracy. Hawthorne, Stoddard, and Stowe used Mather's work to discover the importance of democratic concepts and categori
Book Details
- Country: US
- Published: 1993
- Publisher: Northeastern University Press
- Author(s):Christopher D. Felker
- Language: English
- Pages: 309
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