The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures

Empire, Travel, Modernity

By:

Ralph Bauer

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

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In this 2003 book, Ralph Bauer presents a comparative investigation of colonial prose narratives in Spanish and British America from 1542 to 1800. He discusses narratives of shipwreck, captivity and travel, as well as imperial and natural histories of the New World in the context of transformative early modern scientific ideologies and investigates the inter-connectedness of literary evolutions in various places of the early modern Atlantic world. Bauer positions the narrative models promoted by the 'New Sciences' during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries within the context of the geopolitical question of how knowledge can be centrally controlled in outwardly expanding empires. This important and highly original study of Early American literature brings into conversation with one another writers from various parts of the early modern Atlantic world including Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdes, Samuel Purchas, William Strachey, Mary Rowlandson, Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, William Byrd and Hector St John de Crèvecoeur.

Author Biography:

Ralph Bauer is Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. His articles have appeared in numerous collections and journals.

Release date NZ

January 18th, 2009

Author

Ralph Bauer

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Illustrations

15 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

316

Series

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

Dimensions

152x229x18

ISBN-13

9780521100328

Product ID

2832733

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