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Future history : global fantasies in seventeenth-century American and British writings
2017
Overview
Future History analyzes English and American writings that imagine England on a global stage well before England became an empire or the United States became a global power. Through close readings, historical contextualization, application of archival theory, and careful speculation, the book traces the ways that English and American writers imagined the East Indies and the West Indies as interconnected. The book argues that the earliest expressions of an American or English worldview were born colonial, conceived at the margins of a rising empire, not in its metropolis, and that a wider variety of agents than we have previously understood—Algonquian converts, “reformed” Catholics, enslaved women in the spice trade, Protestant dissidents, West Indian maroons—helped shape that worldview. In order to recover these voices and experiences, so often overwritten or ignored, the book combines more traditional methodologies of literary analysis and historicization with an interrogation of the structures of the archives in which early writings have been preserved. The chapters taken together describe a particular global (East Indies–West Indies) literary history, while the codas, taken as a separate sequence, demonstrate how a “slant” view on literary history that is asynchronous and at times anachronistic affords a new and more inclusive view of the worlding of the English imagination in the seventeenth century.
Publisher
Oxford University Press,Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject
/ American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism
/ American literature -- English influences
/ Comparative literature -- American and English
/ Comparative literature -- English and American
/ English literature -- American influences
/ English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
/ HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877). bisacsh
ISBN
0190665130, 9780190665135
