TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weyler,Karen Ann
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Empowering words: outsiders and authorship in early America 
SN  - 9780820343259
AV  - PS185 .W46 2013
U1  - 810.9/001 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Athens
PB  - The University of Georgia Press
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Outsiders in literature
KW  - American literature
KW  - Revolutionary period, 1775-1783
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780820343259/
ER  -