"The Devils Territories": Nature, the sublime, and witchcraft in the puritan imagination and Robert Eggers's The Witch

Miranda Corcoran; Andrea Di Carlo

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-55049-3_7

"The Devils Territories": Nature, the sublime, and witchcraft in the puritan imagination and Robert Eggers's The Witch

Miranda Corcoran
, Andrea Di Carlo

School of English and Digital Humanities

University College Cork

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Abstract

Can we consider the Sublime to be an early-modern notion? Of course we can, as Cheney (2018) has proved in his review of the Sublime in early-modern England. What has rarely been interrogated, though, is the connection between the Sublime, feminism, and Puritan theology. Our article is divided into two sections: in section one, we provide a critical and historical overview of the natural Sublime in Puritan theology by relying on the writings of the Puritan clergyman Cotton Mather; in section two, we investigate the contemporary legacy of the Puritan Sublime and its relationship to feminism in The Witch (2015).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Fictional Worlds and the Moral Imagination
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	117-134
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030550493
ISBN (Print)	9783030550486
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55049-3_7
Publication status	Published - 11 Dec 2020

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