The author reconstructs the lived experience of both captors and captives to show that captivity was always intertwined with gender struggles, providing a novel

Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of the “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson” (1682). Mary Rowlandson (c

Rowlandson's famous account of her abduction by the Narragansett Indians in 1676 is accompanied by three other narratives of captivity among the Delawares, the

Enthralling generations of readers, the narrative of capture by Native Americans is arguably the first American literary form dominated by the experiences of wo

This study is a reconception of the relationship of gender to captivity, conversion, and resistance during five periods of intercultural colonial warfare betwee