The Making of Salem: The Witch Trials in History, Fiction and Tourism
Author:   Robin DeRosa
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
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9780786439836


Pages:   216
Publication Date:   28 July 2009
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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The Making of Salem: The Witch Trials in History, Fiction and Tourism


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Author:   Robin DeRosa
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9780786439836


ISBN 10:   0786439831
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   28 July 2009
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface      Introduction      1. “You Seem to Act Witchcraft” Theatricality and the Trial Transcripts      2. From Shards to Meanings Historians Make Sense of the Trials      3. Fiction and the Real Novelists Rewrite Salem      4. A Dramatic Tale Salem on Stage and Screen      5. Selling the Story From Salem Village to Witch City      Notes      Bibliography      Index     

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a clever re-examination of the processes and products of writing history --<i>Choice.</i>


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Robin DeRosa is an associate professor of English at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She edited the collection Assimilation and Subversion in Earlier American Literature and has contributed essays to American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance, Women as Sites of Culture, Postscript: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, In-Between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism, and The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature.

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