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Author Carroll, Lorrayne

Title Rhetorical Drag : Gender Impersonation, Captivity, and the Writing of History
Published Ashland : The Kent State University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (176 pages)
Contents Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Particular Knowledge"; 1. "Being Read with a Greedy Attention": Mather in Drag; 2. "Peculiar Efficacy and Authority": Hannah Duston's Missing Voice; 3. "The Original Copy and the Mistake of the Transcriber": Elizabeth Hanson's Relation; 4. "Affecting History": Impersonating Women in the Early Republic; Epilogue: "I'm Just an Advertisement for a Version of Myself"; Notes; Works Cited; Index
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Subject Captivity narratives -- United States -- History and criticism
Captivity narratives -- United States -- Authorship
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
American literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Rhetoric -- Sex differences
Indian captivities -- United States
History in literature.
Women prisoners in literature.
American literature
Captivity narratives
Discourse analysis, Narrative
History in literature
Indian captivities
Women prisoners in literature
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781631010323
1631010328