Imagined Empires

Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771-1876

Eric Wertheimer

Imagined Empires demonstrates that early American culture took great interest in
South American civilizations, especially the Incas and Aztecs, and in so doing made a
statement about the role of the United States as an empire in the emerging political
order of New World colonies and states. By examining the work of Philip Freneau,
Joel Barlow, William Prescott, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman, the
long-contested concept of "indigenous origins" is given expanded meaning beyond
traditional critiques of American culture.

CONTENTS

Introduction; Ancient America in the Post-Colonial National Imaginary; 1;
Commencements: Pre-Columbian Worlds and Philip Freneau's Literature of
American Empire; 2; Diplomacy: Joel Barlow's Scripting and Subscripting of Ancient
America; 3; Noctography: Prescott's Sketchings of Aztecs and Incas; 4; Mutations;
Melville, Representation, and South American History; 5; Passage: Two Rivulets and
the Obscurity of American Maps.

November 1998
256 Pages
3 halftones

Hardback
0-521-62229-8
$59.95

SERIES NAME:

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

SUBJECT:

American literature

Cannibalism and the Colonial World

Barker, Francis Duncan, Hulme, Peter Duncan and Iversen, Margaret (eds.)

In Cannibalism and the Colonial World, an international team of specialists from a variety of disciplines discusses the historical and cultural significance of Western fascination with the topic of cannibalism. Addressing the image as it appears in a series of texts--popular culture, film, literature, travel writing and anthropology--the essays range from classical times to contemporary critical discourse. This group of literary and anthropological scholars places the discussion of cannibalism in the context of postcolonial and cultural studies.

Contents: 1. Introduction: The cannibal scene PETER HULME; 2. Rethinking anthropophagy WILLIAM ARENS; 3. Cannibal feasts in nineteenth-century Fiji: seamen's yarns and the ethnographic imagination GANANATH OBEYESEKERE; 4. Brazilian anthropophagy revisited SERGIO LUIZ PRADO BELLEI; 5. Lapses in taste: 'cannibal-tropicalist' cinema and the Brazilian aesthetic of underdevelopment LUIS MADUREIRA; 6. Ghost stories, bone flutes, cannibal countermemory GRAHAM HUGGAN; 7. Cronos and the political economy of vampirism: notes on a historical constellation JOHN KRANIAUSKAS; 8. Fee fie fo fum: the child in the jaws of the story MARINA WARNER; 9. Cannibalism qua capitalism; the metaphorics of accumulation in Marx, Conrad, Shakespeare and Marlowe JERRY PHILLIPS; 10. Consumerism, or the cultural logic of late cannibalism CRYSTAL BARTOLOVICH; 11. The function of cannibalism at the present time MAGGIE KILMOUR.

Cultural Margins 5

Subject: literature

1998 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 c. 318 pp. 13 halftones

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Voyages in Print

English Travel to America, 1576-1624

Mary C. Fuller

In the decades leading up to England's first permanent American colony, the literature which emerged needed to establish certain realities against a background of scepticism, and it also had to find ways of theorizing the enterprise. The voyage narratives evolved almost from the outset as a genre concerned with recuperating failure ? as noble, strategic, even as a form of success. Reception of these texts since the Victorian era has often accepted their claims of heroism and mastery; this study argues for a more complicated, less glorious history.

Contents: 1. Early Ventures: Writing under the Gilbert and Ralegh Patents; 2. Ralegh's Discoveries: The Two Voyages to Guiana; 3. Mastering Words: The Jamestown Colonialists and John Smith; 4. The 'Great Prose Epic': Hakluyt's Voyages.

Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 7

Subject: literature

1995 6 X 9 224 pp. 21 halftones

Hardback 0-521-48161-9 $44.95

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Parts 1 & 2.

Trigger, Bruce G. and Washburn, Wilcomb E. (eds.)

This book provides the first comprehensive history of the Native Peoples of North America from their arrival in the western hemisphere to the present. It describes how Native Peoples have dealt with the environmental diversity of North America and have responded to the different European colonial regimes and national governments that have established themselves in recent centuries. It also provides a comparison not found in other histories of how Native Peoples have fared in Canada and the United States.

Contents: 
1. Native View of History - Peter Nabokov
2. Native Peoples in Euro-American Historiography - 
   Wilcomb E. Washburn & Bruce G. Trigger
3. The First Americans and the Differentiation of 
   Hunter-Gatherer Cultures - Dean R. Snow
4. Indigenous Farmers - Linda S. Cordell & Bruce D. Smith
5. Agricultural Chiefdoms of the Eastern Woodlands - Bruce D.    Smith
6. Entertaining Strangers: North America in the 
   Sixteenth Century - Bruce G. Trigger & William R. Swagerty
7. Native People and European Settlers in Eastern North 
   America, 1600-1783 - Neal Salisbury
8. The Expansion of European Colonization to 
   the Mississippi Valley, 1780-1880 - Michael D. Green
9. The Great Plains from the Arrival of the Horse 
   to 1885 - Loretta Fowler
10. The Greater Southwest and California from the 
    Beginning of European Settlement to the 1880s 
    - Howard R. Lamar with Sam Truett
11. The Northwest from the Beginning of Trade with Europeans
    to the 1880s - Robin A. Fisher
12. The Reservation Period, 1880-1960-Frederick E. Hoxie
13. The Northern Interior, 1600 to Modern Times - Arthur J. Ray
14. The Arctic from Norse Contact to Modern Times - David Damas 
15. The Native American Renaissance, 1960-1994, Wilcomb E. Washburn

Bibliographical Essays Subject: history 
1996    c. 1349 pp.     40 halftones 46 maps 
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(each part is available seperately)
Part 1  c. 733 pp.  42 halftones 28 maps 
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Part 2   c. 792 pp.        25 maps 
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Early Native American Writing: New Critical Essays

Helen Jaskoski, ed.

Foreword by LaVonne Brown Ruoff

This collection of critical essays discusses the works of American Indian authors who wrote between 1630 and 1940, producing some of the earliest literature in North American history. It highlights the writings of many American Indian authors only recently rediscovered. Contributors: Wolfgang Hochbruck, Beatrix Dudenseng, Laura J. Murray, Dana D. Nelson, Anne Marie Dannenberg, Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., John Lowe, William M. Clements, Helen Jaskoski, Robert F. Sayre, G. W. Grayson, Eric Peterson, Carol Batker, Martha L. Viehmann, Birgit Hans. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture 102.

Subject: literature 
1996      6 x 9      c. 320 pp. 
Hardback  0-521-55509-4    $49.95* 
Paperback 0-521-55527-2    $16.95

Covenant and Republic: Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism

Philip Gould

Citizens and Saints investigates the cultural politics of historical memory in the early American republic, specifically the historical literature of Puritanism. By situating historical writing about Puritanism in context of the cultural forces of Republicanism and liberalism, this study reconsiders the emergence of the historical romance in the 1820's, before the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Citizens and Saints not only aids the Americanist recovery of this literary period, but also brings together literary studies of historical fiction and historical scholarship of early Republican political culture; in doing so, it offers a persuasive new account of just what is at stake when one reads literature of and about the past.

Contents:
Chapter One: The New Ebenezer: Republican Virtue,
   the Puritan  Fathers, and Early National History-Writing
Chapter Two: Catharine Sedgwick's "Recital" of 
   the Pequot War
Chapter Three: Refashioning the Republic: Gender, Ideology,
   and the Politics of Virtue in Hobomok and Hope Leslie
Chapter Four: The "Hive of America": James Fenimore
   Cooper's The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish and the History of King 
   Philip's War
Chapter Five: Witch-Hunting and the Politics of Reason 

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture 103 

Subject: literature 
1996   6 x 9   c. 256 pp. 
Hardback     0-521-55499-3    $54.95*

February 28, 2000