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UNINA9910789333403321 |
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Autore |
Bross Kristina |
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Titolo |
Future history : global fantasies in seventeenth-century American and British writings / / Kristina Bross [[electronic resource]] |
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New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-066515-7 |
0-19-066516-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2017. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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'Future History' analyzes English and American writings that imagine England on a global stage well before England became an empire or the United States became a global power. Through close readings, historical contextualization, application of archival theory, and careful |
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