"""Required reading for scholars in the period." -- Year's Work
in English Studies Should women concern themselves with reading
other than the Bible? Should women attempt to write at all? Did
these activities violate the hierarchy of the universe and men's
and women's places in it? Colonial American women relied on the
same authorities and traditions as did colonial men, but they
encountered special difficulties validating themselves in writing.
William Scheick explores logonomic conflict in the works of
northeastern colonial women, whose writings often register anxiety
not typical of their male contemporaries. This study features the
poetry of Mary English and Anne Bradstreet, the letter-journals of
Esther Edwards Burr and Sarah Prince, the autobiographical prose of
Elizabeth Hanson and Elizabeth Ashbridge, and the political verse
of Phyllis Wheatley. These works, along with the writings of other
colonial women, provide especially noteworthy instances of
bifurcations emanating from American colonial women's conflicted
confiscation of male authority. Scheick reveals subtle authorial
uneasiness and subtextual tensions caused by the attempt to draw
legitimacy from male authorities and traditions. William J.
Scheick, J.R. Miliken Centennial Professor of English at the
University of Texas at Austin, is the author of Design in Puritan
American Literature.
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