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Author:

Bross, Kristina, author.

Title:

Future history : global fantasies in seventeenth-century American and British writings / Kristina Bross.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xvi, 227 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism.
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).
American literature--Colonial period.
American literature--English influences.
Comparative literature--American and English.
Comparative literature--English and American.
English literature--American influences.
English literature--Early modern.
Literature and globalization.
1500-1775
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

"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. "-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0190665130
9780190665135

OCLC:

(OCoLC)984742717

LCCN:

2017002198

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)