LEADER 04995nam 2200817 450 001 9910789470603321 005 20211014015100.0 010 $a0-8122-2377-2 010 $a0-8122-0914-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812209143 035 $a(CKB)3710000000020876 035 $a(EBL)3442282 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001071275 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11603192 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001071275 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11114543 035 $a(PQKB)10355521 035 $a(OCoLC)867741688 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27259 035 $a(DE-B1597)449754 035 $a(OCoLC)979577390 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812209143 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442282 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10780886 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682675 035 $a(OCoLC)864358403 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442282 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000020876 100 $a20130418h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSeasons of misery $ecatastrophe and colonial settlement /$fKathleen Donegan 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 225 0 $aEarly American Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-322-51393-7 311 0 $a0-8122-4540-7 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: Unsettlement --$tChapter 1. Roanoke: Left in Virginia --$tChapter 2. Jamestown: Things That Seemed Incredible --$tChapter 3. Plymouth: Scarce Able to Bury Their Dead --$tChapter 4. Barbados: Wild Extravagance --$tAfterword: Standing Half-Amazed --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aThe stories we tell of American beginnings typically emphasize colonial triumph in the face of adversity. But the early years of English settlement in America were characterized by catastrophe: starvation, disease, extreme violence, ruinous ignorance, and serial abandonment. Seasons of Misery offers a provocative reexamination of the British colonies' chaotic and profoundly unstable beginnings, placing crisis?both experiential and existential?at the center of the story. At the outposts of a fledgling empire and disconnected from the social order of their home society, English settlers were both physically and psychologically estranged from their European identities. They could not control, or often even survive, the world they had intended to possess. According to Kathleen Donegan, it was in this cauldron of uncertainty that colonial identity was formed. Studying the English settlements at Roanoke, Jamestown, Plymouth, and Barbados, Donegan argues that catastrophe marked the threshold between an old European identity and a new colonial identity, a state of instability in which only fragments of Englishness could survive amid the upheavals of the New World. This constant state of crisis also produced the first distinctively colonial literature as settlers attempted to process events that they could neither fully absorb nor understand. Bringing a critical eye to settlers' first-person accounts, Donegan applies a unique combination of narrative history and literary analysis to trace how settlers used a language of catastrophe to describe unprecedented circumstances, witness unrecognizable selves, and report unaccountable events. Seasons of Misery addresses both the stories that colonists told about themselves and the stories that we have constructed in hindsight about them. In doing so, it offers a new account of the meaning of settlement history and the creation of colonial identity. 410 0$aEarly American studies. 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zUnited States$xHistoriography 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zUnited States$xHistory$vSources 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$zAmerica$xHistoriography 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$zAmerica$xHistory$vSources 607 $aBarbados$xColonization$xHistoriography 607 $aBarbados$xColonization$xHistory$vSources 607 $aUnited States$xColonization$xHistoriography 607 $aUnited States$xColonization$xHistory$vSources 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$yTo 1865$xHistoriography 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$yTo 1865$vSources 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775$xHistoriography 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775$vSources 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life$xHistoriography. 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life$xHistory 676 $a973 700 $aDonegan$b Kathleen$01583622 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789470603321 996 $aSeasons of misery$93866913 997 $aUNINA