The cultural geography of colonial American literatures : empire, travel, modernity

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Label

The cultural geography of colonial American literatures : empire, travel, modernity

Title remainder

empire, travel, modernity

Statement of responsibility

Ralph Bauer

Creator

• Bauer, Ralph, 1965-

Subject

• America -- Early works to 1800 -- History and criticism
• America -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
• America -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
• American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism
• Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Historiography
• Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Historiography
• America -- Discovery and exploration | Historiography

Genre

• Early works to 1800

Language

eng

Summary

"Ralph Bauer presents a comparative investigation of colonial prose narratives in Spanish and British America from 1542 to 1800. He discusses narratives of shipwreck, captivity, and travel, as well as imperial and natural histories of the New World, in the context of transformative early modern scientific ideologies and investigates the inter-connectedness of literary evolutions in various places of the early modern Atlantic world. Bauer positions the narrative models promoted by the "New Sciences" during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries within the context of the geo-political question of how knowledge can be centrally controlled in outwardly expanding empires. He brings into conversation with one another writers from various parts of the early modern Atlantic world including Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes, Samuel Purchas, William Strachey, Mary Rowlandson, Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora, William Byrd, and Hector St. John de Crevecoeur."--Jacket

Member of

• Cambridge studies in American literature and culture, [136]

Cataloging source

UKM

Dewey number

810.9001

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E143

LC item number

.B33 2003

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture

Series volume

[136]