Miraculous Plagues - An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative

Informationen zum Autor Cristobal Silva is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Klappentext In the summer of 1629, John Winthrop described a series of epidemics that devastated Native American populations along the eastern seaboard of New England as a "miraculous plague." Winthrop was struck by the providential nature of these waves of disease, which contributed neatly to the settlers' justifications for colonial expansion. Taking Winthrop's phrase as its cornerstone, Miraculous Plagues reimagines New England's literary history by tracing seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century epidemics alongside events including early migration, the Antinomian controversy, the evolution of the halfway covenant and jeremiad, and Boston's 1721 inoculation controversy. Zusammenfassung Miraculous Plagues examines the forms and conventions of colonial epidemiology in order to re-imagine New England's early literary history as a function of the narrative, legal, and theological responses to regional and generational patterns of illness in the seventeenth- and early eighteenth centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: New England Epidemiology Chapter 2: Vectors of Dissent Chapter 3: Puritan Immunology Chapter 4: Technologies of Inoculation Afterword Works Cited Index

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• Authors: Cristobal Silva, Cristobal (Assistant Professor of English & Silva, Silva Cristobal
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.02.2016
• EAN: 9780190272401
• ISBN: 978-0-19-027240-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Epidemiology & medical statistics, Immunology, MEDICAL / Immunology, MEDICAL / Biostatistics, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1600 To C 1700, Northeastern & North Atlantic States, Epidemiology and Medical statistics, US Northeast