Captivity Narratives

Captivity Narratives Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Overviews
  • The Significances of the Captivity Narrative
  • The Indian Captivity Narrative as Ritual
  • By Dens of Lions: Notes on Stylization in Early Puritan Captivity Narratives
  • White Men Held Captive
• Criticism: Captivity Narratives And Puritanism
  • Cups of Common Calamity: Puritan Captivity Narratives as Literature and History
  • ‘My Outward Man’: The Curious Case of Hannah Swarton
• Criticism: Captivity Narratives And Native Americans
  • Cannibalism and Infant Killing: A System of ‘Demonizing’ Motifs in Indian Captivity Narratives
  • Resistant History: Revising the Captivity Narrative in ‘Captivity’ and Blackrobe: Isaac Jogues
• Criticism: Influence On American Literature
  • Women and Indians: The Last of the Mohicans and the Captivity Tradition
  • Capturing the Audience: Sentimental Literature and the New Reading Covenant
• Further Reading