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LEADER: 01936cam a2200361 i 4500
001 2013005553
003 DLC
005 20140626083143.0
008 130320s2013 gaua b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2013005553
020 $a9780820343235 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a0820343234 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9780820343242 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a0820343242 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPS185$b.W46 2013
082 00 $a810.9/001$223
100 1 $aWeyler, Karen Ann.
245 10 $aEmpowering words :$boutsiders and authorship in early America /$cKaren A. Weyler.
264 1 $aAthens ;$aLondon :$bThe University of Georgia Press,$cc2013.
300 $axiii, 311 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references ( and index.
505 0 $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.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$yRevolutionary period, 1775-1783$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aOutsiders in literature.
650 0 $aAuthorship$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aLiteracy$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.