The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America
Gretchen A. Adams
In "The Specter of Salem", Gretchen A. Adams reveals the many ways that the Salem witch trials loomed over the American collective memory from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Schoolbooks in the 1790s, for example, evoked the episode to demonstrate the new nation's progress from a disorderly and brutal past to a rational present, while critics of new religious movements in the 1830s cast them as a return to Salem-era fanaticism, and during the Civil War southerners evoked witch burning to criticize Union tactics. Shedding new light on the many, varied American invocations of Salem, Adams ultimately illuminates the function of collective memories in the life of a nation.
年:
2009
出版:
1
出版社:
University Of Chicago Press
语言:
english
页:
239
ISBN 10:
0226005410
ISBN 13:
9780226005416
文件:
PDF, 1.04 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2009
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