Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583-1671: Allegories of Desire
Colonial Writing in the New World 1583-1671 offers an account of the simultaneous emergence of colonialism and nationalism during the early modern period. It looks at the role that English interactions with native populations played in attempts to articulate a coherent English identity. Unlike most other studies of the subject, it suggests that colonialism is best understood as a phenomenon that had profound significance for people on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583-1671: Allegories of Desire
Colonial Writing in the New World 1583-1671 offers an account of the simultaneous emergence of colonialism and nationalism during the early modern period. It looks at the role that English interactions with native populations played in attempts to articulate a coherent English identity. Unlike most other studies of the subject, it suggests that colonialism is best understood as a phenomenon that had profound significance for people on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583-1671: Allegories of Desire

Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583-1671: Allegories of Desire

by Thomas J. Scanlan
Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583-1671: Allegories of Desire

Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583-1671: Allegories of Desire

by Thomas J. Scanlan

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Colonial Writing in the New World 1583-1671 offers an account of the simultaneous emergence of colonialism and nationalism during the early modern period. It looks at the role that English interactions with native populations played in attempts to articulate a coherent English identity. Unlike most other studies of the subject, it suggests that colonialism is best understood as a phenomenon that had profound significance for people on both sides of the Atlantic.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521643054
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 09/16/1999
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 6.22(w) x 9.29(h) x 0.87(d)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The allegorical structure of colonial desire; 2. Fear and love: two versions of Protestant ambivalence; 3. Forging the nation: the Irish problem; 4. Preaching the nation: the sermon as promotion; 5. Love and shame: Roger Williams and A Key into the Language of America; 6. Fear and self-loathing: John Eliot's Indian Dialogues; Coda; Notes; Index.
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