1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460446503321

Autore

William J. Scheick

Titolo

Authority and female authorship in colonial America / / William J. Scheick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

0-8131-8513-0

0-8131-5859-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/9287/09032

Soggetti

American literature - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - History and criticism

Women and literature - United States - History - 18th century

Women and literature - New England - History - 17th century

American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Authority in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Authority; Authorship; Literacy; Strangers in a Strange Land; Purview; 1. Authority and Witchery; Cotton Mather's Manual for Women; Mary English's Acrostic; 2. Love and Anger; Anne Bradstreet's Verse Letter to Her Husband; Esther Edwards Burr's Letter-Journal; 3. Captivity and Liberation; Elizabeth Hanson's Captivity Narrative; Elizabeth Ashbridge's Autobiography; 4. Subjection and Prophecy; Phillis Wheatley's Poetry; ""Goliath and Garth""; ""Isaiah LXIII. 1-8""

""On Being Brought from Africa to America""Conclusion; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Should women concern themselves with reading other than the Bible? Should women attempt to write at all? Did these activities violate the hierarchy of the universe and men's and women's places in it? Colonial American women relied on the same authorities and traditions as did



colonial men, but they encountered special difficulties validating themselves in writing. William Scheick explores logonomic conflict in the works of northeastern colonial women, whose writings often register anxiety not typical of their male contemporaries. This study features the poetry of Mary English and Anne Bradstre