Held captive by Indians : selected narratives, 1642-1836 / edited, with a new preface by Richard VanDerBeets.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

VanDerBeets, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian captivities.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 374 pages ; illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1994.

Summary:

Among the early white settlers, accounts of Indian captivities and massacres became America's first literature of catharsis - a means by which a population that disapproved of fiction and play-acting could satisfy its appetite for stories about other people's misfortunes. This collection of unaltered captivity narratives, first published in 1973, remains an invaluable source of information for historians and ethnologists, providing a fascinating glimpse of a vanished era. For this edition, VanDerBeets has written a new preface discussing the proliferation of recent scholarship about captivity narratives, especially those written by women.

Notes:

Originally published: 1973.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0870498401

OCLC:

29182416