Kristina Bross

Future History

Global Fantasies in Seventeenth-Century American and British Writings

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Produktbeschreibung

Future History traces the ways that English and American writers oriented themselves along an East-West axis to fantasize their place in the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780190665135
• ISBN-10: 0190665130
• Artikelnr.: 48206801

Autorenporträt

Kristina Bross is an Associate Professor of English at Purdue University and the author of Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America (Cornell UP, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

* 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