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The romance of the New World : gender and the literary formations of English colonialism /

This book studies the lively interplay between popular romances and colonial narratives during a crucial period when the values of a redefined patriarchy converged with the motives of an expansionist economy. Joan Pong Linton argues that the emergent romance figure of the husband (subsuming the role...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Linton, Joan Pong
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Colección:Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 27.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Love's laborers: the busy heroes of romance and empire
  • Sea-knights and royal virgins: American gold and its discontents in lodge's A Margarite of America (1596)
  • Jack of Newbery and Drake in California: domestic and colonial narratives of English cloth and manhood
  • Eros and science: the discourses of magical consumerism
  • Gender, savagery, tobacco: marketplaces for consumption
  • Inconstancy: coming to Indians through Troilus and Cressida
  • The Tempest, "rape," the art and smart of Virginian husbandry
  • Coda: the masks of Pocahontas.