Empowering words
Weyler, Karen Ann.
Empowering words outsiders and authorship in early America / [electronic resource] : Karen A. Weyler. - Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780820343259 0820343250
Literacy--Social aspects--United States.
Authorship--Social aspects--United States.
Outsiders in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--Revolutionary period, 1775-1783
American literature--History and criticism.--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Electronic books.
PS185 / .W46 2013
810.9/001
Empowering words outsiders and authorship in early America / [electronic resource] : Karen A. Weyler. - Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780820343259 0820343250
Literacy--Social aspects--United States.
Authorship--Social aspects--United States.
Outsiders in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--Revolutionary period, 1775-1783
American literature--History and criticism.--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Electronic books.
PS185 / .W46 2013
810.9/001