The Life and Times of Cotton Mather

Reintroducing Kenneth Silverman's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the most celebrated of all New England Puritans, at once a sophisticated work which succeeds admirably in presenting a complete portrait of a complex man and a groundbreaking study that accurately portrays Mather and his contemporaries as the first true American rather than European expatriates.

Kenneth Silverman is a professor at New York University and co-director of the NYU Biography Seminar.

Acknowledgments

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I. COTTONUS MATHERUS (1663-1686)

Quantum Nomen! Quanta Nomina!

3

(21)

The Solemnest Work in the World

24

(31)

II. MR. COTTON MATHER (1687-1703)

The Glorious Revolution

55

(28)

Letters of Thanks from Hell

83

(55)

The Parter's Portion

138

(31)

Particular Faiths

169

(24)

III. THE REVEREND COTTON MATHER, D.D. & F.R.S. (1703-1713)

Joseph Dudley

193

(34)

Bonifacius

227

(34)

Of 15, Dead, 9

261

(18)

IV. SILENCE DOGOOD (1714-1724)

Lydia Lee George

279

(28)

Tria Carcinomata

307

(29)

The Paths of the Destroyer

336

(28)

Crackling of Thorns Under a Pot

364

(33)

V. COTTON MATHER (1724-1728)

As Merry as One Bound for Heaven

397

(23)

Conclusion: Copp's Hill

420

(9)

Documentation

429

(36)

Index

465

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The Life and Times of Cotton Mather

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