Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Female Captivity, Royal Authority, and Male Identity in Colonial New England, 1682-1707 -- 2. The Sovereignty and Goodness of God in 1682: Mary Rowlandson's Narrative and the "Fathers' " Defense -- 3. Deference and Difference: Female Captivity and Male Ambivalence -- 4. The Uses of Female Humiliation: Judea Capta, Hannah Dustan, and Hannah Swarton in the 1690s -- 5. Hannah Dustan's Bodies: Domestic Violence and Third-Generation Male Identity in Cotton Mather's Decennium Luctuosum -- 6. Returning to Zion: Cultural Competition and John Williams's The Redeemed Captive -- 7. The Seduction of the ''Father(s)" -- Coda Dux Faemina Facta/Dux Faemina Facti -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
Reconsidering captivity narratives published between 1682 and 1707, The Captive's Position explores the ways in which two generations of New England Puritan ministers reacted to internal and imperial challenges to colonial authority by seizing upon representations of captive women to negotiate and to shape a distinctive male identity
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-214) and index
