Liberty's Captives - 9780820328010
Un libro in lingua di Williams Daniel E. (EDT) Brown Christina Riley (EDT) Bryant Salita S. (EDT) Bynum Dixon (EDT) Childress Boyd (EDT) edito da Univ of Georgia Pr, 2006
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Included here are accounts by Indian captives, but also prisoners of war, slaves, victims of pirates and Barbary corsairs, impressed sailors, and shipwreck survivors. The volume's seventeen selections have been culled from hundreds of such texts, edited according to scholarly standards, and reproduced with the highest possible degree of fidelity to the originals.
Some selections are fictional or borrow heavily from other, true narratives; all are sensational. Immensely popular with American readers, they were also a lucrative commodity that helped to catalyze the explosion of print culture in the early Republic. As Americans began to personalize the rhetoric of their recent revolution, captivity narratives textually enacted graphic scenes of defiance toward deprivation, confinement, and coercion. At a critical point in American history they helped make the ideals of nationhood real to common citizens.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Liberty's Captives
- Sottotitolo: Narratives of Confinement in the Print Culture of the Early Republic
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Williams Daniel E. (EDT) Brown Christina Riley (EDT) Bryant Salita S. (EDT) Bynum Dixon (EDT) Childress Boyd (EDT)
- Editore: Univ of Georgia Pr
- Collana: Univ of Georgia Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 05 Gennaio '06
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : Captivity narratives United States American prose literature 1783-1850 American prose literature Revolutionary period, 1775-1783
- Pagine: 322
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0820328014
- EAN-13: 9780820328010