Future History

Future History

Global Fantasies in Seventeenth-Century American and British Writings

Bross, Kristina (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Purdue University)

Oxford University Press Inc

11/2017

248

Dura

Inglês

9780190665135

15 a 20 dias

Future History traces the ways that English and American writers oriented themselves along an East-West axis to fantasize their place in the world.
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