Colonial writing and the New World, 1583-1671 : allegories of desire

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Colonial writing and the New World, 1583-1671 : allegories of desire

Title remainder

allegories of desire

Statement of responsibility

Thomas Scanlan

Title variation

Colonial Writing & the New World, 1583-1671

Creator

• Scanlan, Thomas

Author

• Scanlan, Thomas

Subject

• American prose literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism
• Colonies in literature
• Desire in literature
• English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
• Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Historiography
• Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 16th century
• Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century
• Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans
• United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Historiography
• Allegory
• America -- In literature

Language

eng

Summary

Most scholars of Anglo-American colonial history have treated colonialism either as an exclusively American phenomenon or, conversely, as a European one. Colonial Writing and the New World 1583-1671 argues for a reading of the colonial period that attempts to render an account of both the European origins of colonial expansion and its specifically American consequences. The author offers an account of the simultaneous emergence of colonialism and nationalism during the early modern period, and of the role that English interactions with native populations played in attempts to articulate a coherent English identity. He draws on a wide variety of texts ranging from travel narratives and accounts of the colony in Virginia to sermons, conversion tracts and writings about the Algonquin language

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• Online access with EBA: Cambridge Books Online

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Dewey number

818/.10809

Index

index present

LC call number

PS367

LC item number

.S33 1999

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries