Future history : global fantasies in seventeenth-century American and British writings / Kristina Bross.
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Bross, Kristina (författare)
- ISBN 9780190665135
- Publicerad: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
- Engelska xvi, 227 pages
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- Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction- "America is as properly East as China" -- Chapter 1- "A Universall Monarchy": Millennialism, Translatio and the Global Imagination -- Coda- Tis Done! -- Chapter 2- "Of the New-World a new discoverie": Thomas Gage Breaks the Space-Time Continuum -- Coda-"A Query" -- Chapter 3- "These Shall Come from Far": Global Networks of Faith -- Coda- A Nonantum Life -- Chapter 4- "Why should you be so furious?": Global Fantasies of Violence -- Coda- "Wicked Weed" -- Chapter 5- "Would India had beene never knowne": Wives Tales in the Global English Archive -- Epilogue- Unmanning England in Dryden's Amboyna -- Bibliography.
- "Future History traces the ways that English and American writers oriented themselves along an East-West axis to fantasize their place in the world. The book builds on new transoceanic scholarship and recent calls to approach early American studies from a global perspective. Such scholarship has largely focused on the early national period; Bross's work begins earlier and considers the intertwined identities of America, other English colonial sites and metropolitan England during a period before nation-state identities were hardened into the forms we know them today, when an English empire was nascent, not realized, and when a global perspective such as we might recognize it was just coming into focus for early modern Europeans. The author examines works that imagine England on a global stage in the Americas and East Indies just as--and in some cases even before--England occupied such spaces in force. Future History considers works written from the 1620s to the 1670s, but the center of gravity of Future History is writing at the mid-century, that is, writings coincident with the Interregnum, a time when England plotted and launched ambitious, often violent schemes to conquer, colonize or otherwise appropriate other lands, driven by both mercantile and religious desires. "--
Ämnesord
- Komparativ litteraturforskning (sao)
- Engelsk litteratur -- historia (sao)
- Amerikansk litteratur -- historia (sao)
- Literature and globalization. (LCSH)
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- Comparative literature -- English and American. (LCSH)
- Comparative literature -- American and English. (LCSH)
- English literature -- American influences. (LCSH)
- American literature -- English influences. (LCSH)
- HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877). (bisacsh)
- Literature and globalization.
- American literature -- Colonial period.
- American literature -- English influences.
- Comparative literature -- American and English.
- Comparative literature -- English and American.
- English literature -- American influences.
- English literature -- Early modern.
- Comparative literature (LCSH)
- 1500-talet (sao)
- 1600-talet (sao)
- 1700-talet (sao)
- 1500-1775 (fast)
Genre
- Analys och tolkning (saogf)
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Klassifikation
- PR129.A4 (LCC)
- 820.935873 (DDC)
- HIS036050 (bisacsh)
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