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A unique collection of materials, including works of literature as well as historical documents, Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750 provides a broad view of how witches and magicians were represented in print and manuscript over...
Brief description: Marion Gibson is Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter in Cornwall, England. She is the author of Early Modern Witches: Witchcraft Cases in Contemporary Writing and Reading Witchcraft.
Review Quotes: "The purpose of this finely edited and extremely useful volume is to show how a wide range of people in England and New England understood witchcraft during and after the period of the witch trials. . . . The most distinctive feature of Gibson's anthology is the large number of literary sources."--Brian P. Levack, University of Texas at Austin, H-Albion, H-Net Reviews, August 2004