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The enduring search for female salvation in American literature is first expressed through typology, an interpretive framework that pairs type with antitype, historical scriptural promise with future spiritual fulfillment. When Cotton Mather invokes the typos of Esther in Ornaments of the Daughters of Zion, a Puritan conduct book, he offers a female type of divine wisdom, authority and force. In the biblical Book of Esther, Esther acts as a female type of wisdom and redemption, but her story als

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Author

Ariel Clark Silver

Publisher

Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781498564793

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Christian, Literary Criticism

Updated

2026-03-25