Rhetorical Drag - Gender Impersonation, Captivity, and the Writing of History - Hardback - 2006

Presenting an examination of seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenthcentury American captivity narratives, this work argues that male editors and composers impersonated the women presumed to be authors of these documents. It is aimed at those interested in early American literary studies and historiography as well as womens and gender studies.
Year of publication: 2006
Pagination: 144 pages, illustrations, notes, biblio., index
Format: Hardback