Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vi
4. Acknowledgments vii
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1 The Secularization of Nature 16
7. Chapter 2 Vaccinating in the Name of the Lord 40
8. Chapter 3 John Owen, Plague, and the Meanings of Disaster 56
9. Chapter 4 Maternal Bodies 74
10. Chapter 5 Printing England’s Plague Past in New England 100
11. Chapter 6 Contagious Fasts 117
12. Chapter 7 Enslaved Bodies and the White Imagination 150
13. Afterword 175
14. List of Contributors 187
15. Index 191