Inventing Americans in the age of discovery : narratives of encounter / by Michael Householder.
| Author/creator |
Householder, Michael |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2011. |
| Description | x, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Introduction: encounter, invention, narration -- Narrating encounter: The book of John Mandeville -- Translation, compilation, and triangulation: Richard Eden's invention of English discovery -- Evolutions of racial discourse: George Best and the narration of English-Inuit encounters, 1576-1578 -- Bruites and conspiracies: Ralph Lane's narration of native counter-intelligence -- "[Y]et hee so demeaned himselfe": John Smith's confidence games -- Terror and tears in New England: gender, violence, victimhood, and American identity -- Conclusion: the significance of encounter from an early Americanist perspective. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2010053823 |
| ISBN | 9780754667605 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 075466760X (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781409428879 (ebk.) |
| ISBN | 1409428877 (ebk.) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | E141 .H76 2011 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |