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Author:

Kolodny, Annette, 1941-

Title:

In search of first contact : the Vikings of Vinland, the peoples of the dawnland, and the Anglo-American anxiety of discovery / Annette Kolodny.

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xvii, 426 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

America--Norse.--Norse.
America--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Sagas--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The politics of American prehistory : isolation versus contact -- Contact and conflict : what the Vinland sagas tell us -- Anglo-America's Viking heritage : a nineteenth-century romance -- The New England poets of Viking America and the emergence of the plastic Viking -- The challenge to Columbus and the romance undone -- "We could not discerne any token or signe, that ever any Christian had been before" : the phantom of first contact -- Contact and conflict again : what native stories tell us.

ISBN:

0822352869 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822352860 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822352826 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822352822 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)772113963

LCCN:

2012011578

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)