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Inventing Americans in the age of discovery : narratives of encounter
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Inventing Americans in the age of discovery : narratives of encounter / Michael Householder.
ISBN
9780754667605 (hardback : alk. paper)
075466760X (hardback : alk. paper)
9781409428879 (ebk.)
1409428877 (ebk.)
Published
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011.
Physical Description
x, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 10, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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