Miraculous plagues : an epidemiology of early New England narrative

Miraculous plagues : an epidemiology of early New England narrative / Cristobal Silva.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silva, Cristobal
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
1600-1775
Epidemics > New England > History > 17th century > Sources.
Epidemics > Social aspects > New England > History > 17th century > Sources.
Epidemiology > New England > History > 17th century > Sources.
Epidemics > New England > Historiography.
Epidemics in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric) > Social aspects > New England > History > 17th century.
Narrative medicine.
Medicine > History > 17th century.
Medicine > History > 18th century.
British colonies
Epidemics
Epidemics in literature
Epidemics > Social aspects
Epidemiology
Narration (Rhetoric) > Social aspects
New England > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Sources.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > History > 17th century > Sources.
New England.
America
New England
History
Sources
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Table of Contents:
  • New England epidemiology
  • Vectors of dissent
  • Puritan immunology
  • Technologies of inoculation.

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