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

"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 ha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bross, Kristina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Temas:
1500-1775
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism.
Comparative literature > English and American.
Comparative literature > American and English.
Literature and globalization.
Littérature américaine > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et mondialisation.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
American literature > Colonial period
Comparative literature > American and English
Comparative literature > English and American
English literature > Early modern
Literature and globalization
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Coda. Un/making the world.

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