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The Publication, Promotion, and Distribution of Mary Rowlandson's Indian Captivity Narrative in the Seventeenth Century, in Early American Literature » Read Now
by Kathryn Zabelle Derounian. 23 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...PUBLICATION, PROMOTION, AND DISTRIBUTION OF MARY ROWLANDSONS INDIAN CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE...minimum sale of 1,000 in 1682 (Mott 303), Mary Rowlandsons only work--her dramatic...
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America Begins: Early American Writing ("A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration on Mrs. Mary Rowlandson" begins on p. 232) » Read Now
by Richard M. Dorson. 438 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...unfolding history, and Mary Rowlandson set down the...apace. Or they sought the white magicians, conjurers...a devil who appears in white mans dress, and himself...Colonel...
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Captive Selves, Captivating Others: The Politics and Poetics of Colonial American Captivity Narratives ("Metacom's War, Wetamo's Grievances, and the Captivity of Mary Rowlandson" begins on p. 83) » Read Now
by Pauline Turner Strong. 264 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This book reexamines the Anglo-American literary genre known as the "Indian captivity narrative" in the context of the complex historical practice of captivity across cultural borders in colonial North America. This detailed & nuanced study of the relationship between practice & representation on...
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This book reexamines the Anglo-American literary genre known as the "Indian captivity narrative" in the context of the complex historical practice of captivity across cultural borders in colonial North America. This detailed & nuanced study of the relationship between practice & representation on the one hand & identity & alterity on the other is an important contribution to cultural studies, American studies, Native American studies, women's studies, & historical anthropology.
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The Conversion Experience in America: A Sourcebook on Religious Conversion Autobiography (Chap. 25 "Mary Rowlandson (c. 1635-1678 or 1711)") » Read Now
by James Craig Holte. 234 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This volume provides a sourcebook for the study of American religious conversion narratives. It includes chapters, arranged alphabetically, on 30 significant writers of conversion narratives including early colonial writers, such as Mary Rowlandson, 19th-century women writers, such as Carry Nation...
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This volume provides a sourcebook for the study of American religious conversion narratives. It includes chapters, arranged alphabetically, on 30 significant writers of conversion narratives including early colonial writers, such as Mary Rowlandson, 19th-century women writers, such as Carry Nation, 20th-century social gospel writers, such as Dorothy Day, writers from the age of televangelism, such as Jim Bakker, and writers from outside the mainstream of American culture, such as Frederick Douglass, Eldridge Cleaver, and Piri Thomas. Each entry provides a short biography, discussions of the narrative and the critical response, and a bibliography.
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The Age of Milton: An Encyclopedia of Major 17th-Century British and American Authors ("Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637-1711)" begins on p. 280) » Read Now
by Alan Hager. 392 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The 17th century was a time of significant cultural and political change. The era saw the rise of exploration and travel, the growth of the scientific method, and the spread of challenges to conventional religion. Many of these developments occurred in England and North America, and literature of...
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The 17th century was a time of significant cultural and political change. The era saw the rise of exploration and travel, the growth of the scientific method, and the spread of challenges to conventional religion. Many of these developments occurred in England and North America, and literature of the period reflects the intellectual and emotional fervor of the age. This reference chronicles the lives and works of more than 75 British and American writers of the 17th century.
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American Women Writers to 1800 (Discussion of Mary White Rowlandson begins on p. 217) » Read Now
by Sharon M. Harris. 452 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

American Women Writers to 1800 advances our knowledge of early American culture. Including works by more than ninety women, many of whom have never before been published, this ambitious anthology captures the cultural and individual diversity of women's experiences in early America. It both...
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American Women Writers to 1800 advances our knowledge of early American culture. Including works by more than ninety women, many of whom have never before been published, this ambitious anthology captures the cultural and individual diversity of women's experiences in early America. It both complements and extends earlier studies of colonial and Revolutionary America, with writings that observe the natural features and resources of the "New World"; the proliferation of religious movements; racial relations between Native Americans, African Americans, and European settlers; and patriotic and loyalist sympathies during the Revolutionary years. Selections also confront distinctly feminist issues, focusing on women's education; the psychological complexities of girlhood, marriage and childbirth; sexuality; the legal status of women; and the rise of feminist philosophies at the end of the eighteenth century. Along with better known Massachusetts writers such as Bradstreet, Rowlandson, and Knight, this collection presents works by authors from other New England, mid-Atlantic, and southern colonies, by African American and Native American women, and by women who explored the frontier regions. An impressive variety of genres is represented, with extensive selections of memoirs, letters, diaries, poetry, captivity narratives, Native American narratives, essays, sermons, autobiographies, novels, dramas, and scientific and political tracts. Brief biographical introductions to each author, explanatory footnotes, and a comprehensive index and bibliography impress modern scholarship upon this valuable literary collection and offer fertile ground for a radical rethinking of early American women's lives and writings, while challenging our assumptions regarding early America itself.
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The Land before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860 (Discussion of Mary Rowlandson begins on p. 17) » Read Now
by Annette Kolodny. 296 pgs.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...frontier. To the contrary: Mary Jemison credits "two negroes...discussion of the narratives of white women captured by Indians...Massachusetts "a Paradice." But Mary White...
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Female Captivity and the Deployment of Race in Three Early American Texts, in Papers on Language & Literature » Read Now
by Maureen L. Woodard. 32 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Religion, Grief, and Ethnology in Mary White Rowlandsons Captivity Narrative...Penguin, 1991. Davis, Margaret. "Mary White Rowlandsons Self-Fashioning as Puritan...York...
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Historical Nightmares and Imaginative Violence in American Women's Writings (Discussion of Mary Rowlandson begins on p. 22) » Read Now
by Amy S. Gottfried. 158 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Interpreting five contemporary novels that document suppressed histories of violence and abuse, including Toni Morrison's Beloved and Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, the author then examines the disturbing connections between violence and art.
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The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England (Discussion of Mary Rowlandson begins on p. 258) » Read Now
by Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe. 298 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Baltimore, 1940 ; Helen C. White, English Devotional...England Mind" William and Mary Quarterly , 3d Ser...94. See also John White , "The Planters Plea...thing is needful:...