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Rhetorical drag : gender impersonation, captivity, and the writing of history / Lorrayne Carroll.
Van Pelt Library PS217.C36 C37 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carroll, Lorrayne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Captivity narratives--United States--Authorship.
- Captivity narratives.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- Discourse analysis, Narrative.
- Rhetoric--Sex differences.
- Rhetoric.
- Indian captivities--United States.
- Indian captivities.
- Sex differences.
- Authorship.
- United States.
- History in literature.
- Women prisoners in literature.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 251 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- Introduction : "particular knowledge"
- "Being read with a greedy attention" : Mather in drag
- "Peculiar efficacy and authority" : Hannah Duston's missing voice
- "The original copy and the mistake of the transcriber" : Elizabeth Hanson's relation
- "Affecting history" : impersonating women in the early Republic
- Epilogue : "I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself".
- Notes:
- This work examines authorial gender impersonation (men writing as women) of American women's captivity narratives from 1697 to 1849, and the connections between gender figuration and historiography.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0873388828
- 9780873388825
- OCLC:
- 69331603
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