"Future History traces the ways that English and American writers oriented themselves along an East-West axis to fantasize their place in the world. The book builds on new transoceanic scholarship and recent calls to approach early American studies from a global perspective. Such scholarship ha...

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1. Verfasser:	Bross, Kristina ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York, NY Oxford University Press [2017]
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1620-1680 Englisch Prognose > Motiv Globalisierung > Motiv Literatur USA English literature / History and criticism / Early modern, 1500-1700 American literature / History and criticism / Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Comparative literature / English and American Comparative literature / American and English English literature / American influences American literature / English influences Literature and globalization HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) American literature / Colonial period English literature / Early modern
Zusammenfassung:	"Future History traces the ways that English and American writers oriented themselves along an East-West axis to fantasize their place in the world. The book builds on new transoceanic scholarship and recent calls to approach early American studies from a global perspective. Such scholarship has largely focused on the early national period; Bross's work begins earlier and considers the intertwined identities of America, other English colonial sites and metropolitan England during a period before nation-state identities were hardened into the forms we know them today, when an English empire was nascent, not realized, and when a global perspective such as we might recognize it was just coming into focus for early modern Europeans. The author examines works that imagine England on a global stage in the Americas and East Indies just as--and in some cases even before--England occupied such spaces in force. Future History considers works written from the 1620s to the 1670s, but the center of gravity of Future History is writing at the mid-century, that is, writings coincident with the Interregnum, a time when England plotted and launched ambitious, often violent schemes to conquer, colonize or otherwise appropriate other lands, driven by both mercantile and religious desires. "--
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	xvi, 227 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten (schwarz-weiß)
ISBN:	9780190665135