Rhetorical drag : gender impersonation, captivity, and the writing of history / Lorrayne Carroll
- Bib ID:
- 4512905
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Carroll, Lorrayne
- Description:
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- Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2007
- ix, 251 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0873388828
- 9780873388825
- Full contents:
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- Introduction : "particular knowlege"
- "Being read with a greedy attention" : Mather in drag
- "Peculiar efficacy and authority" : Hannah Duston's missing voice
- "The original copy and the mistake of the transcriber" : Elizabeth Hanson's relation
- "Affecting history" : impersonating women in the early Republic
- Epilogue : "I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself".
- Notes:
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- This work examines authorial gender impersonation (men writing as women) of American women's captivity narratives from 1697 to 1849, and the connections between gender figuration and historiography.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 231-240.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1793
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1788
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