Joan Pong Linton

The Romance of the New World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies the lively interplay between popular romances and colonial narratives during a crucial period of English and colonial history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780521594547
• ISBN-10: 0521594545
• Artikelnr.: 22720132

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Love's laborers: the busy heroes of romance and empire
2. Sea-knights and royal virgins: American gold and its discontents in lodge's A Margarite of America (1596)
3. Jack of Newbery and Drake in California: domestic and colonial narratives of English cloth and manhood
4. Eros and science: the discourses of magical consumerism
5. Gender, savagery, tobacco: marketplaces for consumption
6. Inconstancy: coming to Indians through Troilus and Cressida
7. The Tempest, 'rape', the art and smart of Virginian husbandry
Coda: the masks of Pocahontas
Notes
Works cited
Index.