Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas

Book Review| February 12 2024 Early Publication Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas. By Kirsten Silva Gruesz. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022. 326 pp. Alexander Mazzaferro Alexander Mazzaferro Alexander Mazzaferro is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a specialist in colonial American and early US literatures. His current book project recovers the early modern prohibition on “innovation” as a framework for rereading Anglo-American settler colonialism and the resistance it met. His articles and essays have appeared in Early American Literature, English Language Notes, and J19. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Modern Language Quarterly 11060535. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-11060535 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Alexander Mazzaferro; Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas. Modern Language Quarterly 2024; 11060535. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-11060535 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsModern Language Quarterly Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF.