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Oxford University Press, USA
Future History: Global Fantasies in Seventeenth-Century American and British Writings
Future History: Global Fantasies in Seventeenth-Century American and British Writings
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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.
Author: Kristina Bross
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/13/2017
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780190665135
Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2018
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.
Author: Kristina Bross
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/13/2017
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780190665135
Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2018
About the Author
Kristina Bross is an Associate Professor of English at Purdue University and the author of Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America (Cornell UP, 2004).
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