Empowering words [electronic resource] : outsiders and authorship in early America / Karen A. Weyler.
Material type: TextPublication details: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780820343259
- 0820343250
- 810.9/001 23
- PS185 .W46 2013
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.
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