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Author:

Householder, Michael.

Title:

Inventing Americans in the age of discovery : narratives of encounter / Michael Householder.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

x, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

America--Early accounts to 1600--History and criticism.
Indians--Historiography.--Historiography.
America--Historiography.--Historiography.
English language--Rhetoric.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: encounter, invention, narration -- Narrating encounter: The book of John Mandeville -- Translation, compilation, and triangulation: Richard Eden's invention of English discovery -- Evolutions of racial discourse: George Best and the narration of English-Inuit encounters, 1576-1578 -- Bruites and conspiracies: Ralph Lane's narration of native counter-intelligence -- "[Y]et hee so demeaned himselfe": John Smith's confidence games -- Terror and tears in New England: gender, violence, victimhood, and American identity -- Conclusion: the significance of encounter from an early Americanist perspective.

ISBN:

1409428877 (ebk.)
9781409428879 (ebk.)
075466760X (hardback : alk. paper)
9780754667605 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)698027263

LCCN:

2010053823

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)