Future history : global fantasies in seventeenth-century American and British writings /
Bross, Kristina,
Future history : global fantasies in seventeenth-century American and British writings / Kristina Bross. - xvi, 227 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction- "America is as properly East as China" -- Chapter 1- "A Universall Monarchy": Millennialism, Translatio and the Global Imagination -- Coda- Tis Done! -- Chapter 2- "Of the New-World a new discoverie": Thomas Gage Breaks the Space-Time Continuum -- Coda-"A Query" -- Chapter 3- "These Shall Come from Far": Global Networks of Faith -- Coda- A Nonantum Life -- Chapter 4- "Why should you be so furious?": Global Fantasies of Violence -- Coda- "Wicked Weed" -- Chapter 5- "Would India had beene never knowne": Wives Tales in the Global English Archive -- Epilogue- Unmanning England in Dryden's Amboyna -- Bibliography.
"Future History traces the ways that English and American writers oriented themselves along an East-West axis to fantasize their place in the world. The book builds on new transoceanic scholarship and recent calls to approach early American studies from a global perspective. Such scholarship has largely focused on the early national period; Bross's work begins earlier and considers the intertwined identities of America, other English colonial sites and metropolitan England during a period before nation-state identities were hardened into the forms we know them today, when an English empire was nascent, not realized, and when a global perspective such as we might recognize it was just coming into focus for early modern Europeans. The author examines works that imagine England on a global stage in the Americas and East Indies just as--and in some cases even before--England occupied such spaces in force. Future History considers works written from the 1620s to the 1670s, but the center of gravity of Future History is writing at the mid-century, that is, writings coincident with the Interregnum, a time when England plotted and launched ambitious, often violent schemes to conquer, colonize or otherwise appropriate other lands, driven by both mercantile and religious desires. "--
9780190665135 (hardcover)
2017002198
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
American literature--History and criticism.--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Comparative literature--English and American.
Comparative literature--American and English.
English literature--American influences.
American literature--English influences.
Literature and globalization.
HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877).
PR129.A4 / B76 2017
820.9/35873
Future history : global fantasies in seventeenth-century American and British writings / Kristina Bross. - xvi, 227 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction- "America is as properly East as China" -- Chapter 1- "A Universall Monarchy": Millennialism, Translatio and the Global Imagination -- Coda- Tis Done! -- Chapter 2- "Of the New-World a new discoverie": Thomas Gage Breaks the Space-Time Continuum -- Coda-"A Query" -- Chapter 3- "These Shall Come from Far": Global Networks of Faith -- Coda- A Nonantum Life -- Chapter 4- "Why should you be so furious?": Global Fantasies of Violence -- Coda- "Wicked Weed" -- Chapter 5- "Would India had beene never knowne": Wives Tales in the Global English Archive -- Epilogue- Unmanning England in Dryden's Amboyna -- Bibliography.
"Future History traces the ways that English and American writers oriented themselves along an East-West axis to fantasize their place in the world. The book builds on new transoceanic scholarship and recent calls to approach early American studies from a global perspective. Such scholarship has largely focused on the early national period; Bross's work begins earlier and considers the intertwined identities of America, other English colonial sites and metropolitan England during a period before nation-state identities were hardened into the forms we know them today, when an English empire was nascent, not realized, and when a global perspective such as we might recognize it was just coming into focus for early modern Europeans. The author examines works that imagine England on a global stage in the Americas and East Indies just as--and in some cases even before--England occupied such spaces in force. Future History considers works written from the 1620s to the 1670s, but the center of gravity of Future History is writing at the mid-century, that is, writings coincident with the Interregnum, a time when England plotted and launched ambitious, often violent schemes to conquer, colonize or otherwise appropriate other lands, driven by both mercantile and religious desires. "--
9780190665135 (hardcover)
2017002198
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
American literature--History and criticism.--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Comparative literature--English and American.
Comparative literature--American and English.
English literature--American influences.
American literature--English influences.
Literature and globalization.
HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877).
PR129.A4 / B76 2017
820.9/35873