Kristina Bross

Future History (eBook, PDF)

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. 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190665142
• Artikelnr.: 54575332

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