Empowering Words : Outsiders and Authorship in Early America /

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Standing outside elite or even middling circles, outsiders who were marginalized by limitations on their freedom and their need to labor for a living had a unique grasp on the profoundly social nature of print and its power to influence public opinion. In this book, the author explores how outsiders...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weyler, Karen A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Outsiders in literature.
Literacy > Social aspects.
Authorship > Social aspects.
American literature > Revolutionary period (United States)
American literature > Colonial period.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Art d'ecrire > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Étrangers dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 1775-1783 (Periode revolutionnaire) > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale) > Histoire et critique.
Strangers in literature.
Noncitizens in literature.
Literacy > Social aspects > United States.
Authorship > Social aspects > United States.
American literature > Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 > History and criticism.
American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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