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Rhetorical Drag : Gender Impersonation, Captivity, and the Writing of History.

Carroll, Lorrayne.

Rhetorical Drag : Gender Impersonation, Captivity, and the Writing of History. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (180 pages)

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Particular Knowledge" -- 1. "Being Read with a Greedy Attention": Mather in Drag -- 2. "Peculiar Efficacy and Authority": Hannah Duston's Missing Voice -- 3. "The Original Copy and the Mistake of the Transcriber": Elizabeth Hanson's Relation -- 4. "Affecting History": Impersonating Women in the Early Republic -- Epilogue: "I'm Just an Advertisement for a Version of Myself" -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

9781631010323


Captivity narratives--United States--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PS217.C36.C377 2007

810.9/3538

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