Spectral Evidence

Date of Award

11-2022

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Organizational Unit

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, English and Literary Arts

First Advisor

Joanna Howard

Keywords

Creative writing, Fiction

Abstract

My novel, Spectral Evidence, weaves together my interests in the history of witchcraft and reproductive rights, colonial New England and the modern media landscape, and the female lived experience past and present. The novel begins when a fledgling female journalist is assigned to travel to a Massachusetts town where a number of high school girls have allegedly conspired to get pregnant at the same time. Although the journalist tries her best to disregard implications of the occult that surface with every lead she chases down, the explanation for this contemporary happening is ultimately out of her hands, originating in a forgotten chapter in the town’s history in which a midwife who was illegally helping young unmarried servants terminate their pregnancies gets swept up in the witchcraft outbreak of 1692.

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the author. Permanently suppressed.

Rights Holder

Gretchen D. Schrafft

Provenance

Received from author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

en

File Size

289 pgs

Discipline

Creative writing

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