Table of Contents: Authority and female authorship in colonial America

Main Author:	Scheick, William J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [1998]
Physical Description:	x, 150 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects:	American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 18th century. Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 17th century. American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Authority in literature. Authorship.

Table of Contents:

Authority and witchery. Cotton Mather's manual for women ; Mary English's acrostic
Love and anger. Anne Bradstreet's verse letter to her husband ; Esther Edwards Burr's letter-journal
Captivity and liberation. Elizabeth Hanson's captivity narrative ; Elizabeth Ashbridge's autobiography
Subjection and prophecy. Phillis Wheatley's poetry.