Download Writing North America in the Seventeenth Century: English by Catherine Armstrong PDF

By Catherine Armstrong

because the first everlasting English colony used to be proven at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 and money owed of the hot international began to arrive again at the English shorelines, English women and men have had a fascination with their transatlantic neighbours and the panorama they inhabit. during this very good research, Catherine Armstrong seems to be on the wealth of literature written by way of settlers of the recent colonies, adventurers and commentators again in England, that awarded this new international to early sleek Englanders. an enormous quantity of unique literature is tested together with trip narratives, promotional literature, sermons, broadsides, ballads, performs and journals, to enquire the highbrow hyperlinks among mother-country and colony. Representations of the weather, panorama, natural world of North the USA within the revealed and manuscript assets are thought of intimately, as is the altering figuring out of contemporaries in England of the colonial settlements being tested in either Virginia and New England, and the way those interpretations affected colonial coverage and lifestyles at the floor in the United States. The ebook additionally recreates the context of the London booklet exchange of the 17th century and the networks in which this literature could were produced and transmitted to readers. This e-book should be priceless to these with pursuits in colonial background, the Atlantic global, commute literature, and historians of early glossy England and North the US in general.

Show description

Read or Download Writing North America in the Seventeenth Century: English Representations in Print and Manuscript PDF

Best british & irish contemporary literature books

Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton

The economic revolution of the 17th century deeply replaced English tradition. during this formidable e-book, Blair Hoxby explores what that fiscal transformation intended to the century’s maximum poet, John Milton, and to the wider literary culture during which he labored. Hoxby locations Milton’s workas good because the writings of up to date reformers just like the Levellers, poets like John Dryden, and political economists like Sir William Pettywithin the framework of England’s financial background among 1601 and 1724.

Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy

The courtship and remarriage of a wealthy widow was once a favored motif in early glossy comedian theatre. Jennifer Panek brings jointly a wide selection of texts, from ballads and jest-books to sermons and court docket documents, to ascertain the staple widow of comedy in her cultural context and to check early smooth attitudes to remarriage.

Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution (UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series)

Among 1750 and 1820, tides of revolution swept the Atlantic global. From the recent commercial cities of serious Britain to the plantations of Haiti, they heralded either the increase of democratic nationalism and the following surge of imperial response. In Imagining the British Atlantic after the yankee Revolution, 9 essays give some thought to those innovative variations from a number of literary, visible, and old views.