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Rhetorical drag [electronic resource] : gender impersonation, captivity, and the writing of history / Lorrayne Carroll

Author
Carroll, Lorrayne
Published
Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2007.
Physical Description
ix, 251 p. ; 24 cm.
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Contents
Introduction : "particular knowlege" -- "Being read with a greedy attention" : Mather in drag -- "Peculiar efficacy and authority" : Hannah Duston's missing voice -- "The original copy and the mistake of the transcriber" : Elizabeth Hanson's relation -- "Affecting history" : impersonating women in the early Republic -- Epilogue : "I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself".
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0873388828 (alk. paper)
9780873388825 (alk. paper)
Note
This work examines authorial gender impersonation (men writing as women) of American women's captivity narratives from 1697 to 1849, and the connections between gender figuration and historiography.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-240) and index.
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