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Witchcraft And Society in England and America, 1550-1750
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Witchcraft And Society in England and America, 1550-1750
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Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Dr Marion Gibson
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:286 | Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156 |
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Category/Genre | British and Irish History Witchcraft |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780826483003
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Classifications | Dewey:942.053 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | Undergraduate | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Imprint |
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
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Publication Date |
12 October 2006 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
A unique collection of materials, including works of literature as well as historical documents, Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750 provides a broad view of how witches and magicians were represented in print and manuscript over three centuries. It combines newly annotated selections from famous texts, such as Macbeth, Doctor Faustus, and The Faerie Queene with unjustly obscure ones: portrayals of witchcraft and magic from private papers, court records, and little-known works of fiction. In this rich, broad context, Marion Gibson presents the voices of "witches," accusers, ministers, physicians, poets, dramatists, magistrates, and witchfinders from both sides of the Atlantic. Each text is introduced with a short essay and fully annotated to explain unfamiliar words and concepts, give biographical details of participants and/or authors, and explore the context in which the text was produced.
Author Biography
Marion Gibson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, UK. Her publications include Reading Witchcraft (Routledge, 1999), Possession, Puritanism and Print (Pickering and Chatto, 2006) and Witchcraft Myths in American Culture (Routledge, 2007).
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