Held Captive by Indians: Selected Narratives, 1642-1836Richard VanDerBeets Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1994 - 374 pàgines Among the early white settlers, accounts of Indian captivities and massacres became America's first literature of catharsis - a means by which a population that disapproved of fiction and play-acting could satisfy its appetite for stories about other people's misfortunes. This collection of unaltered captivity narratives, first published in 1973, remains an invaluable source of information for historians and ethnologists, providing a fascinating glimpse of a vanished era. For this edition, VanDerBeets has written a new preface discussing the proliferation of recent scholarship about captivity narratives, especially those written by women. |
Continguts
Captivity of Father Isaac Jogues of the Society | 3 |
The Soveraignty and Goodness of God Together | 41 |
Memoirs of Odd Adventures Strange Deliverances | 91 |
An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson | 130 |
A Faithful Narrative of the Many Dangers | 151 |
A Narrative of the Lords Wonderful Dealings with | 177 |
The Manheim Anthology 175791 | 202 |
A Narrative of the Incidents Attending the Capture | 243 |
Bibliography | 367 |
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