The Making Salem: The Witch Trials in History, fiction and Tourism - Brossura

Derosa, Robin

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ISBN 10: 0786439831 ISBN 13: 9780786439836

Casa editrice: McFarland Publishing, 2009

Riassunto

The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 are a case study in hysteria and group psychology, and the cultural effects still linger centuries later. This critical study examines original trial transcripts, historical accounts, fiction and drama, film and television shows, and tourist sites in contemporary Salem, challenging the process of how history is collected and recorded.Drawing from literary and historical theory, as well as from performance studies, the book offers a new definition of history and uses Salem as a tool for rethinking the relationships between the truth and the stories people tell about the past.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Robin DeRosa is an associate professor of English at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She edited the collection Assimilation and Subversion in Earlier American Literature and has contributed essays to American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance, Women as Sites of Culture, Postscript: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, In-Between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism, and The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: McFarland Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0786439831
• ISBN 13: 9780786439836
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 210
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile