Held captive by Indians : selected narratives, 1642-1836 / edited by Richard VanDerBeets.
"Among the early white settlers, accounts of Indian captivities and massacres became America's first literature of catharsis - a means by which a population that disapproved of fiction and play-acting could satisfy its appetite for stories about other people's misfortunes. This collec...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Knoxville :
University of Tennessee Press,
[1994]
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Main Collection
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E85 .V36 1994 |
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Status: | Available Request this item |