6/1/2023 0 Comments The witches salem 1692 reviewThe main interpretive claim of the book is that the Salem crisis is not reducible to any one particular cause, but rather that it erupted out of a “perfect storm of factors” that collectively led to a “multivalent societal tragedy” (6). For Ray, writing the definitive study of Salem is very much the ambition of Satan and Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692. The metaphor of code cracking is particularly appropriate for the digital evidence that Ray and others have brought to bear on the maps that first appeared in Salem Possessed. Kamensky points out that the “river of books” produced since 1974 have all aspired to “crack Salem’s code” through varying methodologies ( WMQ, 392–393). The question of what is the definitive study has haunted Salem scholarship. Jane Kamensky introduced the forum by explaining that Salem Possessed was provocative rather than definitive, that each subsequent study has contributed a new dimension. Karlsen (gender), and Sarah Rivett (transatlantic intellectual history). Ray (digital analysis), John Demos (psychology), Mary Beth Norton (trauma and American Indian wars), Carol F. The forum reflected a host of interpretive frameworks that scholars since 1974 have brought to bear on Salem: Richard Latner and Benjamin C. In 2008, the William and Mary Quarterly ( WMQ) published a forum on Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum’s Salem Possessed (1974).
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