Title Miraculous plagues : an epidemiology of early New England narrative / Cristobal Silva

Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 239 pages) Contents New England epidemiology -- Vectors of dissent -- Puritan immunology -- Technologies of inoculation Summary This title examines the forms and conventions of colonial epidemiology in order to re-imagine New England's early literary history as a function of the narrative, legal, and theological responses to regional and generational patterns of illness in the 17th and early 18th centuries Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Epidemics -- New England -- History -- 17th century -- Sources Epidemics -- Social aspects -- New England -- History -- 17th century -- Sources Epidemiology -- New England -- History -- 17th century -- Sources Epidemics -- New England -- Historiography Epidemics in literature. Narration (Rhetoric) -- Social aspects -- New England -- History -- 17th century Narrative medicine. Medicine -- History -- 17th century. Medicine -- History -- 18th century. Epidemics -- history Narration History, 17th Century History, 18th Century British colonies Epidemics Epidemics in literature Epidemics -- Social aspects Epidemiology Narration (Rhetoric) -- Social aspects SUBJECT New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century -- Sources New England. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091260 New England https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009511 Subject America New England Genre/Form History Sources Form Electronic book ISBN 9780199896868 0199896860

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