American Literature - Lit 112A - Cotton Mather (1663

"The Cotton Mather Home Page" An interesting selection of e-texts of Mather's writings.

"Cotton Mather. The Present State of New-England. Boston, 1690." This site contains actual photocopies of the original text pages.

"Cotton Mather (1663-1728)" A brief overview.

"Cotton Mather on Child-rearing" An e-text! If you have children . . . gather them around to read this together!

"Cotton Mather: An Annotated Bibliography" by Darla Burl and Bethany Newton. Its all in the title!

"Discovering the Unity Among the Parts and the Interweaving of Themes in Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World" by Jim Schmidt. Mather's Defense of the Salem Witchcraft Trials.

"Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana, or Ecclesiastical History of New England" [Excerpts] (1702). Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana is a history of the wars of the Europeans in early America, along with a series of captivity narratives and biographies of leaders.

"The Devil and Cotton Mather" "This excellent essay, by a hand so far unknown, traces the afterward of the travesty of justice that was Salem and gives us an insight into the times and the people that made Salem possible."

"Cotton Mather" Another interesting assortment of e-texts!

"Cotton Mather" A short biographical sketch.