Mather, Cotton | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Biography
Cole, Franklin P. "Cotton Mather (1663-1728)." In Mather Books & Portraits Through Six Early American Generations 1630-1831, pp. 104-68. Portland, Ma.: Casco Printing Company, 1978.
Biographical overview of Mather's life and career.
Wood, James Playsted. The Admirable Cotton Mather. New York: Seabury Press, 1971, 164 p.
Overview of Mather's life and career with one chapter devoted to Mather's role in the Salem witch trials. Wood argues that despite evidence to the contrary, "the myth of [Mather's] responsibility for the cruel purge … has been happily accepted even by those who should know better."
Criticism
Bercovitch, Sacvan. "The Genetics of Salvation." In The American Jeremiad, pp. 86-92. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.
Describes the Magnalia Christi Americana as the...
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