Rhetorical drag : gender impersonation, captivity, and the writing of history / Lorrayne Carroll.

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".
General noteThis 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 231-240) and index.
LCCN 2006016315
ISBN0873388828 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780873388825 (alk. paper)

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