- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 311 pages) : illustrations.
- Uniform Title
- Empowering words (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Empowering words (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references ( and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2013005553
- OCLC
- ssj0000885995
- Author
Weyler, Karen A.
- Title
Empowering words [electronic resource] : outsiders and authorship in early America / Karen A. Weyler.
- Imprint
Athens ; London : The University of Georgia Press, c2013.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references ( and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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