Amy Schrager Lang
WSRP Research Associate 1985-1986
Research Project
Invisible Witness, Visible Saint: Women, the Spirit, and the Law in American Fictions
This study traces the literary history of the 'American Jezebel,' a figure of female lawlessness, from the cautionary tales of the seventeenth century Anne Hutchinson through Stowe's recreation of her as sentimental heroine.
Publications
Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England
Amy Schrager Lang
University of California Press, 1986
Amy Schrager Lang
University of California Press, 1986
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