LEADER 03076nam 22006015 450 001 9910427036403321 005 20250610110147.0 010 $a9783030493042 010 $a3030493040 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-49304-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000011586098 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6402032 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-49304-2 035 $a(Perlego)3482105 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29092622 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011586098 100 $a20201117d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aReading the Salem Witch Child $eThe Guilt of Innocent Blood /$fby Kristina West 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (XIX, 233 p.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic,$x2731-5649 311 08$a9783030493035 311 08$a3030493032 327 $aIntroduction: The child as witch -- 1. 'Bitch witches': Reading 'affliction' in the Salem witch narratives -- 2. The case of Dorcas Good: accuser and accused -- 3. Childhood, witchcraft, and absence -- 4. Motherhood and witchcraft in Salem -- 5. Ann's Story -- 6. Fictionalising Salem: The reconstructed child -- 7. Conclusion: Salem in the twenty first century. 330 $aThis book discusses the role of children in the Salem witch trials through a close reading of the many and varied narratives of the trials, including court records, contemporary and historical documents, fiction, drama, and poetry. Taking a critical theory approach to explore both what we might understand as a child in 1692 New England and to consider our adult investment in reading the child, Kristina West explores narratives of the afflicted girls and the many accused children whom are often absent or overlooked in histories, and considers how the trial structure is continually repeated in attempts to establish the respective guilt and innocence of these and other groups. This book also analyses later manuscripts and fictional rewritings of the trials to question the basis on which assumptions about the child in history are made, and to consider why such narratives of Salem's children are still relevant now. 410 0$aPalgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic,$x2731-5649 606 $aCivilization$xHistory 606 $aSocial history 606 $aUnited States$xHistory 606 $aCultural History 606 $aSocial History 606 $aUS History 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial history. 615 0$aUnited States$xHistory. 615 14$aCultural History. 615 24$aSocial History. 615 24$aUS History. 676 $a155.4 700 $aWest$b Kristina$0938172 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910427036403321 996 $aReading the Salem witch child$92113465 997 $aUNINA