Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-300) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Outsider authorship in early America -- Mourning New England: Phillis Wheatley and The broadside elegy -- An "Englishman under English colours": Briton Hammon, John Marrant, and the fungibility of Christian faith -- "Common, plain, every day talk" from "an uncommon quarter": Samson Occom and the language of the execution sermon -- Becoming "the American heroine": Deborah Sampson, collaboration, and performance -- "To proceed with spirit": Clementina Rind and the Virginia Gazette -- When barbers wrote books: mechanic societies and authorship -- Conclusion: Uncovering other outsider authors.
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