The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials
by Marion L. Starkey
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Author: Marion L. StarkeyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1989-09-05
ISBN: 0385035098
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Anchor
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Book Review: It Was the Worst of Times
Summary: 2 Stars
If I remember correctly, Starkey's book started off as a doctoral thesis. It reads like one, despite her attempt to inject drama into a period of history that needs no such injection. Her modern enquiry is rather dated now, as she used the technique of Freudian analysis to explain away the hysteria surrounding the trials and to explain how something like this could have happened. The psychoanalysis may hit on a grain of truth, but a lot of what she stated was merely conjecture. I would have been more interested to know about the link between the real dangers the Puritans faced (dangers over which they had very little control in their new, hostile, strange environment) and their belief system, which left them ripe to believe in imagined ones.
Summary of The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials
This historical narrative of the Salem witch trials takes its dialogue from actual trial records but applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria. Starkey's sense of drama also vividly recreates the atmosphere of pity and terror that fostered the evil and suffering of this human tragedy.General Books
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