ISBN:
9780754667605
,
9781409428879
,
075466760X
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 228 S.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
DDC:
970.01072
Keywords:
Indians First contact with Europeans
;
Historiography
;
English language Rhetoric
;
America Early accounts to 1600
;
History and criticism
;
America Discovery and exploration
;
Historiography
;
Indians
;
First contact with Europeans
;
Early works to 1800
;
Travelers' writings, English
;
America
;
History and criticism
;
National characteristics, American, in literature
;
English prose literature
;
Early modern, 1500-1700
;
History and criticism
;
America
;
Discovery and exploration
;
European
;
Early works to 1800
;
Englisch
;
Amerika
;
Reisebericht
;
Indianerbild
;
Geschichte Anfänge-1700
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: encounter, invention, narration -- Narrating encounter: The book of John Mandeville -- Translation, compilation, and triangulation: Richard Eden's invention of English discovery -- Evolutions of racial discourse: George Best and the narration of English-Inuit encounters, 1576-1578 -- Bruites and conspiracies: Ralph Lane's narration of native counter-intelligence -- "[Y]et hee so demeaned himselfe": John Smith's confidence games -- Terror and tears in New England: gender, violence, victimhood, and American identity -- Conclusion: the significance of encounter from an early Americanist perspective.
Note:
Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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