The Captive's Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England

Teresa A. Toulouse

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2007

The Captive's Position

Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England

Teresa A. Toulouse

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812203677

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About this book

Reconsidering captivity narratives published between 1682 and 1707, The Captive's Position explores the ways in which two generations of New England Puritan ministers reacted to internal and imperial challenges to colonial authority by seizing upon representations of captive women to negotiate and to shape a distinctive male identity.

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Teresa A. Toulouse is Professor of English at Tulane University and author of The Art of Prophesying: New England Sermons and the Shaping of Belief.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. Female Captivity, Royal Authority, and Male Identity in Colonial New England, 1682-1707 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Sovereignty and Goodness of God in 1682: Mary Rowlandson's Narrative and the "Fathers' " Defense Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
3. Deference and Difference: Female Captivity and Male Ambivalence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
4. The Uses of Female Humiliation: Judea Capta, Hannah Dustan, and Hannah Swarton in the 1690s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
5. Hannah Dustan's Bodies: Domestic Violence and Third-Generation Male Identity in Cotton Mather's Decennium Luctuosum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
6. Returning to Zion: Cultural Competition and John Williams's The Redeemed Captive Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
7. The Seduction of the ''Father( s)" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Coda Dux Faemina Facta/Dux Faemina Facti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 240
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: April 23, 2013
ISBN: 9780812203677