Early American Literature: A Bibliography of Secondary Material


CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES

Breitwieser, Mitchell Robert. American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning: Religion, Grief, and Ethnology in Mary White Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1990.  

Burnham, Michelle.  Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682- 1861. Hanover: UP of New England, 1997.  

Castiglia, Christopher.  Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1996.  

Demos, John. The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America. New York:  Knopf, 1994.  

Derounian-Stodola, Kathryn Zabelle. Women’s Indian Captivity Narratives. New York: Penguin, 1998.

Derounian-Stodola, Kathryn Zabelle, and James Arthur Levernier. The Indian Captivity Narrative, 1550-1900. New York: Twayne, 1993.

Ebersole, Gary L. Captured By Texts: Puritan to Postmodern Images of Indian Captivity. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1995.  

Levernier, James, and Hennig Cohen, eds. The Indians and Their Captives. Westport:   Greenwood P, 1977.

Namias, June. White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier. Chapel Hill: U  of North Carolina P, 1993.  

Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 1973.

Tilton, Robert S. Pocahontas: The Evolution of an American Narrative. New York: Cambridge UP, 1994.  

VanDerBeets, Richard, ed. Held Captive by Indians: Selected Narratives, 1642-1836. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1973.  

Vaughan, Alden T., and Edward W. Clark, eds. Puritans among the Indians: Accounts of Captivity and Redemption, 1676-1724. Cambridge: Belknap-Harvard UP, 1981.  


The bibliographies were originally compiled by Prof. Edward J. Gallagher, Lehigh University, and are currently updated and sponsored by Minnesota State University Moorhead.
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