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"Indistinct Lustre": Biographical Miniatures in the Magnalia Christi Americana
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 4, Number 3, Summer 1981
- pp. 195-207
- 10.1353/bio.2010.0798
- Article
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The brief clerical lives Cotton Mather included in the Magnalia, despite his lack of factual information, cast light on his baroque style, theological purpose, and authorial values while offering perspective on the interplay of history and imagination in the total work. Although historically deficient, they are not artistically superfluous.