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American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning: Religion, Grief, and Ethnology in Mary White Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative (Wisconsin Project on American Writers) by Breitwieser, Mitchell Robert , 1953- is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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Rowlandson, a New England Congregationalist minister's wife, was held captive by the Algonquin Indians during King Philip's War in 1676. Several years after she was ransomed and living among the British again she wrote a (prototypical) narrative of the captivity. Breitwieser's (English, U. of California) penetrating analysis highlights Rowlandson's rendering of biblical doctrine, her critique of Puritan mourning practices, her representations of Indian culture, and her own transformation into a
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- Author
- Breitwieser, Mitchell Robert , 1953-
- Publisher
- Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press
- Published
- 1991
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780299126506
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Religion, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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