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Elizabeth Apple

Student
English

Scholarly Works


Narrative Exposures: Reading Immunity in Cotton Mather's Smallpox Writings

Journal article The New England Quarterly · June 1, 2026 AbstractWhen smallpox returned to Boston in 1721, Cotton Mather was quick to promote the African practice of inoculation. This essay returns to the Antinomian Controversy of 1636-38 to resituate Mather’s ... Full text Cite

“I hold another creed”: reading Helen Burns’ resistant theology in Jane Eyre

Journal article Nineteenth Century Contexts · January 1, 2025 Full text Cite