The cultural geography of colonial American literatures : empire, travel, modernity
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The cultural geography of colonial American literatures : empire, travel, modernity
（Cambridge studies in American literature and culture）
Cambridge University Press, 2008, c2003
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"Paperback re-issue"--Back cover
Originally published: 2003
Includes bibliographical references and index
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In this 2003 book, Ralph Bauer presents a comparative investigation of colonial prose narratives in Spanish and British America from 1542 to 1800. He discusses narratives of shipwreck, captivity and travel, as well as imperial and natural histories of the New World in the context of transformative early modern scientific ideologies and investigates the inter-connectedness of literary evolutions in various places of the early modern Atlantic world. Bauer positions the narrative models promoted by the 'New Sciences' during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries within the context of the geopolitical question of how knowledge can be centrally controlled in outwardly expanding empires. This important and highly original study of Early American literature brings into conversation with one another writers from various parts of the early modern Atlantic world including Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes, Samuel Purchas, William Strachey, Mary Rowlandson, Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora, William Byrd and Hector St John de Crevecoeur.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Prospero's progeny
- 2. Mythos and epos: Cabeza de Vacas's empire of peace
- 3. The geography of history: Samuel Purchas and 'his' pilgrims
- 4. 'True histories': the captivities of Francisco Nunez de Pineda y Bascunan and Mary White Rowlandson
- 5. 'Friends and compatriots': Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora and the piracy of knowledge
- 6. 'Husquenawing': William Byrd's 'Creolean humours'
- 7. Dismembering the empira: Alonso Carrio de la Vandera and J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
- Notes
- Index.
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