Miraculous plagues an epidemiology of early New England narrative / [electronic resource] :
Cristobal Silva.
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- 1 online resource (xii, 239 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This title 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 17th and early 18th centuries.
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Epidemics--History--New England--17th century--Sources. Epidemics--Social aspects--History--New England--17th century--Sources. Epidemiology--History--New England--17th century--Sources. Epidemics--Historiography.--New England Epidemics in literature. Narration (Rhetoric)--Social aspects--History--New England--17th century.
New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Sources. Great Britain--Colonies--History--America--17th century--Sources.