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Reading the Salem Witch childthe guilt of innocent blood /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reading the Salem Witch childby Kristina West.
Reminder of title:	the guilt of innocent blood /
Author:	West, Kristina.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020.
Description:	xix, 233 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Trials (Witchcraft)Sources.History17th centuryMassachusetts
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49304-2
ISBN:	9783030493042$q(electronic bk.)

Reading the Salem Witch childthe guilt of innocent blood /
West, Kristina.

Reading the Salem Witch childthe guilt of innocent blood /[electronic resource] :by Kristina West. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020. - xix, 233 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic. - Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic..

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.

This book discusses the role of children in the Salem witch trials through a close reading of the many and varied narratives of the trials, including court records, contemporary and historical documents, fiction, drama, and poetry. Taking a critical theory approach to explore both what we might understand as a child in 1692 New England and to consider our adult investment in reading the child, Kristina West explores narratives of the afflicted girls and the many accused children whom are often absent or overlooked in histories, and considers how the trial structure is continually repeated in attempts to establish the respective guilt and innocence of these and other groups. This book also analyses later manuscripts and fictional rewritings of the trials to question the basis on which assumptions about the child in history are made, and to consider why such narratives of Salem's children are still relevant now.

ISBN: 9783030493042$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-49304-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

881427
Trials (Witchcraft)
--History--Massachusetts--17th century--Sources.

LC Class. No.: KFM2478.8.W5 / W47 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 133.43097445

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