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Authority and female authorship in colonial America
- Title
- Authority and female authorship in colonial America / William J. Scheick.
- Author
- Scheick, William J.
- Publication
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1998.
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Details
- Description
- x, 150 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Colonial American women relied on the same male authorities and traditions as did colonial men. As a result, they encountered special difficulties validating themselves in writing. In this book, the author explores logonomic conflict in the works of northeastern colonial women, whose writings often register anxiety not typical of their male contemporaries. This book features the poetry of Mary English and Anne Bradstreet, the letter-journals of Esther Edwards Burr and Sarah Prince, the autobiographical prose of Elizabeth Hanson and Elizabeth Ashbridge, and the political verse of Phillis Wheatley.
- Alternative Title
- Authority and female authorship
- Subject
- 1600-1799
- American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism
- Women and literature > United States > History > 18th century
- Women and literature > New England > History > 17th century
- American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- Authority in literature
- Authorship
- Authorship
- authorship
- American literature > Colonial period
- American literature > Women authors
- Women and literature
- Frauenliteratur
- Geschichte 1600-1775
- New England
- United States
- Britisch-Nordamerika
- USA
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-145) and index.
- Contents
- Authority and witchery. Cotton Mather's manual for women ; Mary English's acrostic -- Love and anger. Anne Bradstreet's verse letter to her husband ; Esther Edwards Burr's letter-journal -- Captivity and liberation. Elizabeth Hanson's captivity narrative ; Elizabeth Ashbridge's autobiography -- Subjection and prophecy. Phillis Wheatley's poetry.
- ISBN
- 0813120543
- 9780813120546
- LCCN
- 97028918
- OCLC
- ocm37361698
- 37361698
- SCSB-362842
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library