Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

Rowlandson, Mary | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

BIOGRAPHY

Greene, David L. “New Light on Mary Rowlandson.” Early American Literature, 20, No. 1 (Spring 1985): 24-38.

Offers information on Rowlandson's life after her captivity.

CRITICISM

Breitwieser, Mitchell Robert. American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning: Religion, Grief, and Ethnology in Mary White Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative, Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1990, 234 p.

Book-length interdisciplinary critique of Rowlandson's work and the culture in which it was written.

Diebold, Robert K. “Mary Rowlandson.” In American Writers Before 1800: A Biographical and Critical Dictionary: Q-Z, edited by James A. Levernier and Douglas R. Wilmes. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1983, pp. 1245-47.

Summarizes Rowlandson's life and the critical response to her narrative.

Lang, Amy Schrager. “Introduction.” In Journeys in New...

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