| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Book Review

The Captive's Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England. By Teresa A. Toulouse. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 225 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-3958-4.)

Why did captivity narratives emerge between 1682 and 1707? How is that timing connected with ministers' use of female captives in their texts? Threading European and North American conflicts into an exacting study, the literary scholar Teresa A. Toulouse argues that New England ministers' representations of Mary Rowlandson, Hannah Dustan, Hannah Swarton, and John and Eunice Williams should be understood as negotiations of religious and civil authority. Toulouse explores "the productive cultural role played by women's captivity texts in helping to express, negotiate, and sustain the ambivalent identities of powerful colonial men" (p. 48).

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