“A KINDRED BETWEEN THE HUMAN BEING AND THE LOCALITY”: ANCESTRY AND PLACE IN ‘SALEM LITERATURE’
Clara Reiring | 62-70
Salem, location of the only organized witch trials in the United States, is one of the most frequently used settings in American literature. This paper discusses the motif of genealogical connections to people involved in the witch trials in works from Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables (1851) to contemporary works such as Katherine Howe’s The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (2009).
Keywords: Hawthorne; Salem; Ancestry and Place; Salem literature, Katherine Howe
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