How Long to Read America's Gothic Fiction

How Long Does it Take to Read America's Gothic Fiction?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 6 minutes to read America's Gothic Fiction by Dorothy Zayatz Baker

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Secretary to the Salem witch trials, Cotton Mather is the most reviled of our national historians. Yet James Russell Lowell admitted that "with all his faults, that conceited old pedant contrived to make one of the most entertaining books ever written on this side of the water." In America's Gothic Fiction, Dorothy Z. Baker investigates the ways in which nineteenth-century authors Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, among others, look to Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana at critical moments in their work and refashion his historical accounts as gothic fiction. Cotton Mather's 1702 Magnalia captured the imagination of its readers more than any other colonial history and impressed Americans with its message of American exceptionalism and God's dramatic intervention on behalf of the country and its citizens. Poe, Stowe, and Hawthorne, who are rarely grouped together in literary studies, have radically divergent responses to Mather's theology, historiography, and literary forms. However, each takes up Mather's themes and forms and, in distinct ways, interrogates the providence tales in Magnalia Christi Americana as foundational statements about American history and identity.

How long is America's Gothic Fiction?

America's Gothic Fiction by Dorothy Zayatz Baker is 184 pages long, and a total of 46,736 words.

This makes it 62% the length of the average book. It also has 57% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read America's Gothic Fiction Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 15 minutes to read America's Gothic Fiction aloud.

What Reading Level is America's Gothic Fiction?

America's Gothic Fiction is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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