Held Captive by Indians: Selected Narratives 1642-1836 - Softcover

Vanderbeets, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870498401 ISBN 13: 9780870498404

Publisher: University of Tennessee Press, 1984

Synopsis

Held Captive by Indians 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 collection of unaltered captivity narratives, first published in 1973, remains an invaluable source of information for his... Full description

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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 collection of unaltered captivity narratives, first published in 1973, remains an invaluable source of information for historians and ethnologists, providing a fascinating glimpse of a vanished era. For this edition, VanDerBeets has written a new preface discussing the proliferation of recent scholarship about captivity narratives, especially those written by women.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0870498401
• ISBN 13: 9780870498404
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424