Comments | hakerh: A&S - "Desirous to See the Strange Things of the World": The Curious Voyage of M. Hore

hakerh

A&S - "Desirous to See the Strange Things of the World": The Curious Voyage of M. Hore

Dec 14, 2007 21:31

Northern Lights is coming up. I won the category of Research Paper last year, but in case anyone is looking for my paper ("Desirous to See the Strange Things of the World": The Curious Voyage of M. Hore) online there, I've had to ask for it to be taken down from the site. Not because of anything negative; rather, I want to see if I can get it ( Read more... )

richard hore, sca, documentation, public, a&s

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a_kosmos December 15 2007, 04:55:41 UTC

Cool sounding research. I once wrote a paper on Puritan infanticide narratives.

hakerh December 15 2007, 15:57:50 UTC

Wow, that sounds nifty. What were your primary sources for that?

a_kosmos December 16 2007, 02:44:32 UTC

The Puritans were really into confession narratives, so there are narratives for everything: pirates, murderers, adulterers.... The sad thing was that a lot of the women who killed their babies were indentured servants who had been raped by their masters. AND for a long time if women became pregnant during their indenture, time was added to the indenture.

A lot of the narratives were transcribed by others and had to be signed with an X because the women couldn't read or write.

hakerh December 16 2007, 02:49:12 UTC

Yep, I'm aware of the confession narrative genre (I've done a *ton* of research and classwork on the 16th-17th centuries). :) Have you read Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's book Good Wives? It discusses the ideological roles and goals for women in the 17th and 18th centuries. It's fascinating reading.

I was more asking for a couple specific titles. :)

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iarwain December 15 2007, 06:10:45 UTC

*blush* I kept a copy in my archives.

Some day I'd love to sit down with you and talk about piecing together facts from period accounts. I think it would make a great meta-project for all kinds of historians. The concept applies equally well with the story of Hore, the Zeno narrative/map, and a couple pieces I've been working on from the 18th century: a murder (and subsequent haunting) in Tyngsboro, Ma, and the infamous "midnight ride" that led up to the battle of Lexington Green.

hakerh December 15 2007, 16:05:49 UTC

Sure, that would be very cool. Research & assembling facts into narratives is my favorite part.