Salem Story
Reading the Witch Trials of 1692
(Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
by Bernard Rosenthal

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• Language: english
• Release date: November 30, 1995
• Format: paperback, 304 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Genres: history, witches
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
• Author: Bernard Rosenthal
• ISBN: 9780521558204 (0521558204)

About The Book

Salem Story engages the story of the Salem witch trials through an analysis of the surviving primary documentation and juxtaposes that against the way in which our culture has mythologized the events of 1692. Salem Story examines a variety of individual motives that converged to precipitate the witch hunt. The book also examines subsequent mythologies that emerged from the events of 1692. Of the many assumptions about the Salem Witch Trials, the most persistent one remains that they were precipitated by a circle of hysterical girls. Through an analysis of what actually happened, through reading the primary material, the emerging story shows a different picture, one where “hysteria” inappropriately describes the events and where accusing males as well as females participated in strategies of accusation and confession that followed a logical, rational pattern.

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