Writing North America in the Seventeenth Century
English Representations in Print and Manuscript
Catherine Armstrong
$89.95/£55.00
Since the first permanent English colony was established at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 and accounts of the new world started to arrive back on the English shores, English men and women have had a fascination with their transatlantic neighbours and the landscape they inhabit. In this excellent study, Catherine Armstrong looks at the wealth of literature written by settlers of the new colonies, adventurers and commentators back in England, that presented this new world to early modern Englanders.
A vast amount of original literature is examined including travel narratives, promotional literature, sermons, broadsides, ballads, plays and journals, to investigate the intellectual links between mother-country and colony. Representations of the climate, landscape, flora and fauna of North America in the printed and manuscript sources are considered in detail, as is the changing understanding of contemporaries in England of the colonial settlements being established in both Virginia and New England, and how these interpretations affected colonial policy and life on the ground in America. The book also recreates the context of the London book trade of the seventeenth century and the networks through which this literature would have been produced and transmitted to readers.
This book will be valuable to those with interests in colonial history, the Atlantic world, travel literature, and historians of early modern England and North America in general.
Contents
Prologue; 'Printing and adventuring': the convergence of literature and discovery; The geography and climate of North America; Representations of the American landscape; Colonists and the flora of America; The fauna of North America; Representations of English society in Virginia: intentions and realities; Representations of English society in New England: intentions and realities; Transmission and reception of American news in England; Conclusion; Bobliography; Index.
About the Author/Editor
Dr Catherine Armstrong is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Warwick, UK
Affiliation: Catherine Armstrong, University of Warwick, UK
Illustrations: Includes 6 b&w illustrations
ISBN: 0 7546 5700 0
Publication Date: 07/2007
Number of Pages: 242 pages
Binding: Hardback
Binding Options: Available in Hardback only
Book Size: 234 x 156 mm
British Library Reference: 820.9'327'09032
Library of Congress Reference: 2006101292
ISBN-13 978-0-7546-5700-2
Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas
Nora E. Jaffary
Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
$89.95/£55.00
When Europe introduced mechanisms to control New World territories, resources and populations, women-whether African, indigenous, mixed race, or European-responded and participated in multiple ways. By adopting a comprehensive view of female agency, the essays in this collection reveal the varied implications of women's experiences in colonialism in North and South America.
Although the Spanish American context receives particular attention here, the volume contrasts the context of both colonial Mexico and Peru to every other major geographic region that became a focus of European imperialism in the early modern period: the Caribbean, Brazil, English America, and New France. The chapters provide a coherent perspective on the comparative history of European colonialism in the Americas through their united treatment of four central themes: the gendered implications of life on colonial frontiers; non-European women's relationships to Christian institutions; the implications of race-mixing; and social networks established by women of various ethnicities in the colonial context.
This volume adds a new dimension to current scholarship in Atlantic history through its emphasis on culture, gender and race, and through its explicit effort to link religion to the broader imperial framework of economic extraction and political domination.
Contents
Introduction: Contextualizing race, gender, and religion in the New World, Nora E. Jaffary. Part 1 Frontiers: Women as go-betweens? Patterns in 16th-century Brazil, Alida C. Metcalf; Gender and violence: conquest, conversion, and culture on new Spain's imperial frontier, Bruce A. Erickson; The very sinews of a new Colony: demographic determinism and the history of early Georgia women, 1732–52, Ben Marsh. Part 2 Female Religious: The convent as missionary in 17th-century France, Susan Broomhall; 'Although I am black, I am beautiful': Juana Esperanza de San Alberto, Black Carmelite of Puebla, Joan C. Bristol; Andean women in religion: Beatas, 'decency', and the defense of honour in colonial Cuzco, Kathryn Burns. Part 3 Race Mixing: Incest, sexual virtue, and social mobility in late colonial Mexico, Nora E. Jaffary; 'An empire founded on libertinage': The mulâtresse and colonial anxiety in Saint Domingue, Yvonne Fabella; Mediating Mackinac: métis women's cultural persistence in the Upper Great Lakes, Bethany Fleming. Part 4 Networks: Circuits of knowledge among women in early-17th-century Lima, Nancy E. van Deusen; Waters of faith, currents of freedom: gender, religion, and ethnicity in inter-imperial trade between Curaçao and Tierra Firme, Linda M. Rupert; Afterword: women in the Atlantic world, Patricia Seed. Bibliography; Index.
Reviews
'With outstanding documentation of the importance of local conditions in defining historical outcomes and paying equal attention to North, South, and Central America, Nora Jaffary’s compilation is a welcome contribution to the rapidly expanding field of "Trans-Atlantic" studies.'
Christine Hunefeldt, University of California–San Diego, USA.
About the Author/Editor
Nora E. Jaffary is Assistant Professor of History at Concordia University in Montreal. She is also the author of False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico.
Affiliation: Nora E. Jaffary, Concordia University, Canada
ISBN: 0 7546 5189 4
Publication Date: 07/2007
Number of Pages: 218 pages
Binding: Hardback
Binding Options: Available in Hardback only
Book Size: 219 x 153 mm
British Library Reference: 305.4'2'097'0903
Library of Congress Reference: 2006036038
ISBN-13 978-0-7546-5189-5
Colonial America and the Early Republic
Philip N. Mulder
Series: The International Library of Essays on Political History
$225.00/£120.00
Reflecting the best recent scholarship of Early America and the Early Republic, the articles in this collection study the many dimensions of American political history. The authors explore Native American interests and encounters with settlers, diplomatic endeavors, environmental issues, legal debates and practiced law, women's citizenship and rights, servitude and slavery and popular political activity. The geographical perspective is as expansive as the topical, with strong representation of trans-Atlantic and continental interests of many nations and peoples. The international and interdisciplinary perspectives illustrate the dynamic transformations of America during this era of settlement, conquest, development, revolution and nation building.
Contents
Introduction; The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and the coming of Europeans, Neal Salisbury ; 'This evil extends especially …the feminine sex': negotiating captivity in the New Mexico borderlands, James F. Brookes; King Philip's herds: Indians, colonists, and the problem of livestock in early New England, Virginia DeJohn Anderson; Women and property across colonial America: a comparison of legal systems in New Mexico and New York, Deborah A. Rosen; Taking possession and reading texts: establishing the authority of overseas empires, Patricia Seed; Reading the runaways: self-fashioning, print culture, and confidence in slavery in 18th-century mid-Atlantic, David Waldstreicher; 'Damned scoundrels' and 'libertisme of trade': freedom and regulation in colonial New York's fur and grain trades, Cathy Matson; 'Baubles of Britain': the American consumer revolutions of the 18th century, T.H. Breen; Patriarchy reborn: the gendering of authority in the evangelical Church in revolutionary New England, Susan M. Juster; Food rioters and the American Revolution, Barbara Clark Smith; Between slavery and freedom: Virginia blacks in the American Revolution, Sylvia R. Frey; John Adams, diplomat, John Ferling; Thinking like a constitution, Jack N. Rakove; 'Of every age sex and condition': the representation of women in the constitution, Jan Lewis; Slander, poison, whispers, and fame: Jefferson's 'Anas' and political gossip in the early republic, Joanne B. Freeman; Rites of rebellion, rites of assent: celebrations, print, culture and the origins of American nationalism, David Waldstreicher; Liberty, development, and union: visions of the West in the 1780s, Peter S. Onuf; Thinking and believing: nativism and unity in the ages of Pontiac and Tecumseh, Gregory E. Dowd; Name index.
About the Author/Editor
Philip N. Mulder is Associate Professor of History at High Point University, USA.
Affiliation: Philip N. Mulder, High Point University, USA
ISBN: 0 7546 2613 X
Publication Date: 07/2007
Number of Pages: 550 pages
Binding: Hardback
Binding Options: Available in Hardback only
Book Size: 244 x 169 mm
British Library Reference: 973.2
Library of Congress Reference: 2007924698
ISBN-13 978-0-7546-2613-8
The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790–1876
Brian Yothers
This book is the first to engage with the full range of American travel writing about nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the late-eighteenth-century Barbary captivity narrative on nineteenth-century travel writing about the Middle East. Brian Yothers argues that American travel writing about the Holy Land forms a coherent, if greatly varied, tradition, which can only be fully understood when works by major writers such as Twain and Melville are studied alongside missionary accounts, captivity narratives, chronicles of religious pilgrimages, and travel writing in the genteel tradition. Yothers also examines works by lesser-known authors such as Bayard Taylor, John Lloyd Stephens, and Clorinda Minor, demonstrating that American travel writing is marked by a profound intertextuality with the Hebrew and Christian scriptures and with British and continental travel narratives about the Holy Land. His concluding chapter on Melville's Clarel shows how Melville's poem provides an incisive critique of the nascent imperial discourse discernible in the American texts with which it is in dialogue.
Contents
The emergence of the Levant in American literature: Barbary captivity narratives, oriental romances, and the Holy Land as Protestant trope; 'The all-perfect text': the skeptical piety of Protestant pilgrims to the Holy Land; Alternative orthodoxies: Clorinda Minor, Orson Hyde, Warder Cresson, and William Henry Odenheimer; 'Such poetic illusions': the skeptical oriental romance of John Lloyd Stephens, Bayard Taylor, George William Curtis, and William Cullen Bryant; Quotidian pilgrimages: Mark Twain, J. Ross Browne, John William DeForest, and David Dorr in Palestine; 'As seen through one's tears': the 'double mystery' of place in Herman Melville's Clarel; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author/Editor
Professor Brian Yothers is from the Department of English at The University of Texas, El Paso, USA.
Further Information
ISBN: 0 7546 5492 3
Publication Date: 07/2007
Number of Pages: c. 158 pages
Binding: Hardback
$89.95/£45.00
Library of Congress Reference: 2006036481
ISBN-13 978-0-7546-5492-6
Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America
Angela Vietto
Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
Exploring the wealth of writings by early American women in a broad spectrum of genres, Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America presents one of the few synthetic approaches to early US women’s writing. Through an examination of the strategic choices writers made as they constructed their authorial identities at a moment when ideals of both Author and Woman were in flux, Angela Vietto argues that the relationship between gender and authorship was dynamic: women writers drew on available conceptions of womanhood to legitimize their activities as writers, and, often simultaneously, drew on various conceptions of authorship to authorize discursive constructions of gender.
Focusing on the half-century surrounding the Revolution, this study ranges widely over both well-known and more obscure writers, including Mercy Otis Warren, Judith Sargent Murray, Sarah Wentworth Morton, Hannah Griffitts, Annis Boudinot Stockton, Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, Deborah Gannett, and Sarah Pogson Smith. The resulting analysis complicates and challenges a number of critical commonplaces, presenting instead a narrative of American literary history that presents the novel as women’s entrée into authorship; dichotomized views of civic and commercial authorship and of manuscript and print cultures; and a persistent sense that women of letters constantly struggled against a literary world that begrudged them entrance based on their gender.
Contents
Introduction: Revolutionary American women writers in literary history; Literary sorority in private and in print: publicizing woman's sphere; Maternal authorship: inscribing manhood; The pen and the sword: women writing women warriors; Authorizing female citizenship: beyond Republican motherhood; On careers for women writers: Murray, Warren, Morton; Epilogue; Bibliography; Notes on selected primary texts; Index.
Reviews
'Women and Authorship provides important ways of re-conceiving key concepts in early American women’s writing, including authorship, separate spheres, and the construction of literary history. Engagingly written and highly informative, it also models a new way of writing such history.'
Susan S. Williams, author of Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women in America, 1850-1900
About the Author/Editor
Angela Vietto is Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, USA.
Illustrations: Includes 4 b&w illustrations
ISBN: 0 7546 5338 2
Publication Date: 10/2006
Number of Pages: 158 pages
Binding: Hardback
British Library Reference: 810.9'9287'09033
Library of Congress Reference: 2006013675
$89.95/£45.00
July 24, 2007