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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789333403321

Autore

Bross Kristina

Titolo

Future history : global fantasies in seventeenth-century American and British writings / / Kristina Bross [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017

ISBN

0-19-066515-7

0-19-066516-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Classificazione

HIS036050

Disciplina

820.935873

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

'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



speculation, the work traces the ways that English and American writers imagined the East Indies and the West Indies as interconnected.