Future history : global fantasies in seventeenth-century American and British writings / Kristina Bross.

• Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction- "America is as properly East as China" -- Chapter 1- "A Universall Monarchy": Millennialism, Translatio and the Global Imagination -- Coda- Tis Done! -- Chapter 2- "Of the New-World a new discoverie": Thomas Gage Breaks the Space-Time Continuum -- Coda-"A Query" -- Chapter 3- "These Shall Come from Far": Global Networks of Faith -- Coda- A Nonantum Life -- Chapter 4- "Why should you be so furious?": Global Fantasies of Violence -- Coda- "Wicked Weed" -- Chapter 5- "Would India had beene never knowne": Wives Tales in the Global English Archive -- Epilogue- Unmanning England in Dryden's Amboyna -- Bibliography.

• "Future History traces the ways that English and American writers oriented themselves along an East-West axis to fantasize their place in the world. The book builds on new transoceanic scholarship and recent calls to approach early American studies from a global perspective. Such scholarship has largely focused on the early national period; Bross's work begins earlier and considers the intertwined identities of America, other English colonial sites and metropolitan England during a period before nation-state identities were hardened into the forms we know them today, when an English empire was nascent, not realized, and when a global perspective such as we might recognize it was just coming into focus for early modern Europeans. The author examines works that imagine England on a global stage in the Americas and East Indies just as--and in some cases even before--England occupied such spaces in force. Future History considers works written from the 1620s to the 1670s, but the center of gravity of Future History is writing at the mid-century, that is, writings coincident with the Interregnum, a time when England plotted and launched ambitious, often violent schemes to conquer, colonize or otherwise appropriate other lands, driven by both mercantile and religious desires. "-- 

Ämnesord

Komparativ litteraturforskning  (sao)

Engelsk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Amerikansk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Literature and globalization.  (LCSH)

English literature  -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

American literature  -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Comparative literature  -- English and American. (LCSH)

Comparative literature  -- American and English. (LCSH)

English literature  -- American influences. (LCSH)

American literature  -- English influences. (LCSH)

HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877).  (bisacsh)

Literature and globalization. 

American literature  -- Colonial period.

American literature  -- English influences.

Comparative literature  -- American and English.

Comparative literature  -- English and American.

English literature  -- American influences.

English literature  -- Early modern.

Comparative literature  (LCSH)

1500-talet  (sao)

1600-talet  (sao)

1700-talet  (sao)

1500-1775  (fast)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Criticism, interpretation, etc. 

Klassifikation

PR129.A4 (LCC)

820.935873 (DDC)

HIS036050 (bisacsh)