• Media type: Book
  • Title: Empowering words : outsiders and authorship in early America
  • Contains: Introduction: Outsider authorship in early AmericaMourning New England: Phillis Wheatley and The broadside elegy -- An "Englishman under English colours": Briton Hammon, John Marrant, and the fungibility of Christian faith -- "Common, plain, every day talk" from "an uncommon quarter": Samson Occom and the language of the execution sermon -- Becoming "the American heroine": Deborah Sampson, collaboration, and performance -- "To proceed with spirit": Clementina Rind and the Virginia Gazette -- When barbers wrote books: mechanic societies and authorship -- Conclusion: Uncovering other outsider authors.
    Introduction: Outsider authorship in early America -- Mourning New England: Phillis Wheatley and The broadside elegy -- An "Englishman under English colours": Briton Hammon, John Marrant, and the fungibility of Christian faith -- "Common, plain, every day talk" from "an uncommon quarter": Samson Occom and the language of the execution sermon -- Becoming "the American heroine": Deborah Sampson, collaboration, and performance -- "To proceed with spirit": Clementina Rind and the Virginia Gazette -- When barbers wrote books: mechanic societies and authorship -- Conclusion: Uncovering other outsider authors.
  • Contributor: Weyler, Karen Ann [Author]
  • imprint: Athens, Ga. [u.a.]: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2013
  • Extent: XIII, 311 S.; Ill
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0820343242; 0820343234; 9780820343242; 9780820343235
  • RVK notation: HS 1520 : Darstellungen unter besonderen Gesichtspunkten
  • Keywords: Nordamerika > Englisch > Literatur > Randgruppe > Geschichte 1600-1775
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index

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