Seventeenth-century English: devotion, science, colonial encounter, witchcraft trials, fairy faith, biography, poetry, and popular song.
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Ballads and Popular Song — Seventeenth-century ballads and popular songs, carrying border laments, love tragedies, outlaw stories, and oral memory into print. (11)
Devotion and Religious Prose — Seventeenth-century religious prose and poetry: devotion, martyr memory, Protestant conscience, mystical lyric, and disciplined holy living. (14)
Folklore and Fairy Faith — Early modern fairy faith and learned folklore, preserving the border between popular tradition, second sight, and theological speculation. (1)
Literary Lives and Poetry — Seventeenth-century literary lives and poetry, including biographical memory, plague writing, and English verse across the Atlantic world. (54)
Natural Philosophy and Wonder — Seventeenth-century natural philosophy and wonder literature, where experiment, antiquarian curiosity, cosmology, and speculation share a shelf. (8)
Travel and Colonial Encounter — Seventeenth-century travel and colonial encounter, following English prose across oceans, captivity, commerce, mission, and imperial imagination. (11)
Witchcraft and Demonology — Seventeenth-century witchcraft, demonology, providence, and occult controversy, from trial pamphlets to learned arguments over spirits. (15)