Writing North America in the Seventeenth Century: English Representations in Print and ManuscriptSince the first permanent English colony was established at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 and accounts of the new world started to arrive back on the English shores, English men and women have had a fascination with their transatlantic neighbours and the landscape they inhabit. In this excellent study, Catherine Armstrong looks at the wealth of literature written by settlers of the new colonies, adventurers, and commentators back in England, that presented this new world to Early Modern Englanders. A vast amount of original literature is examined, including travel narratives, promotional literature, sermons, broadsides, ballads, plays and journals, to investigate the intellectual links between mother-country and colony. |
Contents
The Convergence of Literature | 17 |
The Geography and Climate of North America | 43 |
Representations of the American Landscape | 63 |
Colonists and the Flora of America | 83 |
43 | 91 |
77 | 97 |
Animals as Food | 111 |
Animals for Sport | 118 |
Intentions | 127 |
Intentions | 147 |
Transmission and Reception of American News in England | 173 |
Conclusion | 197 |
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