Reading the Salem Witch Child: The Guilt of Innocent Blood by West, Kristina

Reading the Salem Witch Child: The Guilt of Innocent Blood (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030493035)

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Format: Hardcover
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Reading the Salem Witch Child: The Guilt of Innocent Blood by West, Kristina

Reading the Salem Witch Child: The Guilt of Innocent Blood

$129.99
Reading the Salem Witch Child: The Guilt of Innocent Blood by West, Kristina

Reading the Salem Witch Child: The Guilt of Innocent Blood

$129.99
Format: Hardcover
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Introduction: The child as witch.- 1. 'Bitch witches': Reading 'affliction' in the Salem witch narratives.- 2. The case of Dorcas Good: accuser and accused.- 3. Childhood, witchcraft, and absence.- 4. Motherhood and witchcraft in Salem.- 5. Ann's Story.- 6. Fictionalising Salem: The reconstructed child.- 7. Conclusion: Salem in the twenty first century.

Author: Kristina West
ISBN-10: 3030493032
ISBN-13: 9783030493035
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/18/2020
Pages: 233
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.63d
By Kristina West
By Kristina West
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Kristina West is an affiliated member of the Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media at the University of Reading, UK. Her research focuses on American literature, children's literature, and critical theory. Her first book, Louisa May Alcott and the Textual Child, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020.

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