03251nam 2200601 450 991082259840332120211011224122.00-19-066515-70-19-066516-5(CKB)3420000000003130(StDuBDS)EDZ0001712379(MiAaPQ)EBC4941632(PPN)229853536(EXLCZ)99342000000000313020170718d2017 fy| 0engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdacontentrdamediardacarrierFuture history global fantasies in seventeenth-century American and British writings /Kristina Bross[electronic resource]New York, NY :Oxford University Press,2017.1 online resource illustrations (black and white)Previously issued in print: 2017.0-19-066513-0 9780190665142 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.'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.English literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismAmerican literatureColonial period, ca. 1600-1775History and criticismComparative literatureEnglish and AmericanComparative literatureAmerican and EnglishEnglish literatureAmerican influencesAmerican literatureEnglish influencesLiterature and globalizationEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Comparative literatureEnglish and American.Comparative literatureAmerican and English.English literatureAmerican influences.American literatureEnglish influences.Literature and globalization.820.935873HIS036050bisacshBross Kristina1256473StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910822598403321Future history3923264UNINA