Religious Impulse In Selected Autobiographies Of American Women C 1630 1893

Download or read book Religious Impulse in Selected Autobiographies of American Women (c. 1630-1893) written by Phebe Davidson and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study develops the theme of spiritual rhetoric as an important foundation of the American autobiographical tradition and the related idea that the marginalized voices of women and African-Americans worked to alter and redefine America's conception not only of autobiography but of self and gender. The redefinition process is illustrated through readings of texts ranging from Puritan conversion (Anne Bradstreet) through evangelical autobiography (African-American evangelist Amanda Berry Smith) and from Indian captivity narrative through the slave and ex-slave (postbellum) narratives.