Research Catalog

Title

Inventing Americans in the age of discovery : narratives of encounter / by Michael Householder.

Author

Householder, Michael.

Publication

Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2011.

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Description

x, 228 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Indians > Historiography
• English language > Rhetoric
• Exposition (Rhetoric)
• Indiens d'Amérique > Historiographie
• Anglais (Langue) > Rhétorique
• English language > Rhetoric
• Indianer
• Engländer
• Kulturkontakt
• Identität
• Engelska språket > retorik
• Indianer > historia > Nordamerika
• America > Early accounts to 1600 > History and criticism
• America > Historiography
• Amérique > Récits avant 1600 > Histoire et critique
• America
• Europa
• Nordamerika
• Amerika (kontinent) > historiografi

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Early works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780754667605 (hbk.)
• 075466760X
• 9781409428879
• 1409428877

LCCN

2010053823

OCLC

• 698027263
• SCSB-11316345

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library