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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;
27. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.