Silva, Cristobal.

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.

RA650.5

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