Landscape and Identity in North America's Southern Colonies from 1660 to 1745

Catherine Armstrong (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2013
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4094-0663-1 (ISBN)

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Through an analysis of textual representations of the American landscape, this book looks at how North America appeared in books printed on both sides of the Atlantic between the years 1660 and 1745. A variety of literary genres are examined to discover how authors described the landscape, climate, flora and fauna of America, particularly of the new southern colonies of Carolina and Georgia. Chapters are arranged thematically, each exploring how the relationship between English and American print changed over the 85 years under consideration. Beginning in 1660 with the impact of the Restoration on the colonial relationship, the book moves on to show how the expansion of British settlement in this period coincided with a dramatic increase in the production and consumption of the printed word and the further development of religious and scientific explanations of landscape change and climactic events. This in turn led to multiple interpretations of the American landscape dependent on factors such as whether the writer had actually visited America or not, differing purposes for writing, growing imperial considerations, and conflict with the French, Spanish and Natives. The book concludes by bringing together the three key themes: how representations of landscape varied depending on the genre of literature in which they appeared; that an author's perceived self-definition (as English resident, American visitor or American resident) determined his understanding of the American landscape; and finally that the development of a unique American identity by the mid-eighteenth century can be seen by the way American residents define the landscape and their relationship to it.

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Introduction; Chapter 1 Cataloguing and Communicating; Chapter 2 Belief and Identity; Chapter 3 Trade and Authority; Chapter 4 Borderlands and Others; Chapter 5 Place and Potential; Chapter 6 Surveying and Possessing; Chapter 101 Conclusion;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.4.2013
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	566 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4094-0663-6 / 1409406636
ISBN-13	978-1-4094-0663-1 / 9781409406631
Zustand	Neuware