LEADER 03049nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910814192903321 005 20240314002201.0 010 $a0-8203-4325-0 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060518 035 $a(EBL)1222472 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000885995 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11452381 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000885995 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10814427 035 $a(PQKB)10938018 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1222472 035 $a(OCoLC)842875113 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25485 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1222472 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10712858 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL491882 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060518 100 $a20111102d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEmpowering words $eoutsiders and authorship in early America /$fKaren A. Weyler 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAthens $cUniversity of Georgia Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (328 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8203-4323-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aStanding 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 po 606 $aAmerican literature$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$yRevolutionary period, 1775-1783$xHistory and criticism 606 $aOutsiders in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aOutsiders in literature. 676 $a810.9/001 700 $aWeyler$b Karen Ann$01704722 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814192903321 996 $aEmpowering words$94090903 997 $aUNINA