Liberty's Captives - Narratives of Confinement in the Print Culture of the Early Republic

Informationen zum Autor DANIEL E. WILLIAMS is a professor of English at Texas Christian University. He has also edited an anthology of early American criminal narratives, Pillars of Salt . Klappentext A variety of captivity narratives emerged in the fifty years following the American Revolution. This book brings together various types of captivity narratives, and shows how the captivity narrative, in the nation-building years from 1770 to 1820, helped to shape national debates about American liberty and self-determination. Zusammenfassung This anthology, the first to bring together various types of captivity narratives in a comparative way, broadens our view of the form as it shows how the captivity narrative, in the nation-building years from 1770 to 1820, helped to shape national debates about American liberty and self-determination.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel E Williams, Daniel E. (EDT)/ Brown Williams
• Assisted by: Christina Riley Brown (Editor), Salita S. Bryant (Editor), Daniel E Williams (Editor), Daniel E. Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.06.2006
• EAN: 9780820328010
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2801-0
• No. of pages: 322
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Mixed anthologies; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies