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Contents Acknowledgments ix chapter 1 Nightmares of History 1 chapter 2 The Colonial Stage promise and savagery in john smith’s virginia 14 chapter 3 Suspect Grace 50 The Trials of Puritan Faith Echoes and Infamies: The Languages of Salem chapter 4 Alien Terrors 94 Phillis Wheatley’s Feminine Sublime The Silence of John Marrant chapter 5 In‹delities 145 Disavowing Charlotte Temple Slander and Honor in Trials of the Human Heart chapter 6 The Devil Designs a Career 186 Notes 217 Index 251 ...

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