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The romance of the New World : gender and the literary formations of English colonialism
- Title
- The romance of the New World : gender and the literary formations of English colonialism / Joan Pong Linton.
- Author
- Linton, Joan Pong.
- Publication
- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 268 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This book studies the lively interplay between popular romances and colonial narratives during a crucial period when the values of a redefined patriarchy converged with the motives of an expansionist economy. Joan Pong Linton argues that the emergent romance figure of the husband (subsuming the roles of soldier and merchant) embodies the ideal of productive masculinity with which Englishmen defined their identity in America, justifying their activities of piracy, trade, and settlement. At the same time, colonial narratives, in putting this masculinity to the test, often contradict and raise doubts about the ideal; and these doubts prompt individual romances to a self-conscious reflection on English cultural assumptions and colonial motives.
- Hence colonial experience reveals not just the "romance of empire" but also the impact of the New World on English identity.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 27
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 27.
- Subject
- Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
- Zielke-Nadkarni, Andrea 1956-
- 1500-1700
- English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- English literature > American influences
- Literature and history > England > History > 16th century
- Literature and history > England > History > 17th century
- National characteristics, English, in literature
- Masculinity in literature
- Gender identity in literature
- Colonies in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Men in literature
- 18.05 English literature
- Colonies in literature
- Discoveries in geography > English
- English literature > American influences
- English literature > Early modern
- Gender identity in literature
- Literature
- Literature and history
- Masculinity in literature
- Men in literature
- National characteristics, English, in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Amerika Motiv
- Entdeckung
- Kolonialismus Motiv
- Literatur
- Romance
- Liebesbeziehung Motiv
- Rezeption
- Sekserol
- Kolonialisme
- Mannelijkheid
- Engels
- Letterkunde
- Gender roles
- Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 16th century
- Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 17th century
- America > Discovery and exploration > English
- America > In literature
- America
- England
- Amerika
- America > Discovery and exploration > British
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-260) and index.
- Contents
- Love's laborers: the busy heroes of romance and empire -- Sea-knights and royal virgins: American gold and its discontents in lodge's A Margarite of America (1596) -- Jack of Newbery and Drake in California: domestic and colonial narratives of English cloth and manhood -- Eros and science: the discourses of magical consumerism -- Gender, savagery, tobacco: marketplaces for consumption -- Inconstancy: coming to Indians through Troilus and Cressida -- The Tempest, "rape," the art and smart of Virginian husbandry -- Coda: the masks of Pocahontas.
- ISBN
- 0521594545
- 9780521594547
- LCCN
- 97030145
- OCLC
- ocm37361731
- 37361731
- SCSB-542199
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library