Future history : global fantasies in seventeenth-century American and British writings

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Future history : global fantasies in seventeenth-century American and British writings

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global fantasies in seventeenth-century American and British writings

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Kristina Bross

Creator

• Bross, Kristina

Author

• Bross, Kristina

Subject

• American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism
• American literature -- English influences
• American literature -- English influences
• Comparative literature -- American and English
• Comparative literature -- American and English
• Comparative literature -- English and American
• Comparative literature -- English and American
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• 1500-1775
• English literature -- American influences
• English literature -- Early modern
• English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
• HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
• Literature and globalization
• Literature and globalization
• English literature -- American influences
• American literature -- Colonial period

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"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. "--

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Provided by publisher

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DLC

Dewey number

820.9/35873

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR129.A4

LC item number

B76 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography