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.
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