![]() | Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America Subjects: American literature -- Colonial period ca. 1600–1775 -- History and criticism; American literature -- Revolutionary period 1775–1783 -- History and criticism; Outsiders in literature; Authorship -- Social aspects -- United States; Literacy -- Social asp; Standing outside elite or even middling circles, outsiders who were marginalized by limitations on their freedom and their need to labor for a living had a unique grasp on the profoundly social nature of print and its power to influence public opinion. In Empowering Words, Karen A. Weyler explores how outsiders used ephemeral formats such as broadsides, pamphlets, and newspapers to publish poetry, captivity narratives, formal addresses, and other genres with wide appeal in early America. KAREN A. WEYLER is an associate professor of American literature in the English Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the author of Intricate Relations: Sexual and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789-1814 . |
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