03085nam 2200589Ia 450 991046326160332120200520144314.00-8203-4325-0(CKB)3170000000060518(EBL)1222472(SSID)ssj0000885995(PQKBManifestationID)11452381(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000885995(PQKBWorkID)10814427(PQKB)10938018(MiAaPQ)EBC1222472(OCoLC)842875113(MdBmJHUP)muse25485(Au-PeEL)EBL1222472(CaPaEBR)ebr10712858(CaONFJC)MIL491882(EXLCZ)99317000000006051820111102d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEmpowering words[electronic resource] outsiders and authorship in early America /Karen A. WeylerAthens University of Georgia Press20131 online resource (328 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8203-4323-4 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.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 Empowering Words, Karen A. Weyler explores how outsiders used ephemeral formats such as broadsides, pamphlets, and newspapers to publish poetry, captivity narratives, formal addresses, and other genres with wide appeal in early America. To gain access to print, outsiders collaborated with amanuenses and editors, inserted their stories into poAmerican literatureColonial period, ca. 1600-1775History and criticismAmerican literatureRevolutionary period, 1775-1783History and criticismOutsiders in literatureElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Outsiders in literature.810.9/001Weyler Karen Ann966858MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463261603321Empowering words2257294UNINA