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Contents
1. The allegorical structure of colonial desire -- 2. Fear and love: two versions of Protestant ambivalence -- 3. Forgoing the nation: the Irish problem -- 4. Preaching the nation: the sermon as promotion -- 5. Love and shame: Roger Williams and A Key into the Language of America -- 6. Fear and self-loathing: John Eliot's Indian Dialogues
Summary
Colonial Writing in the New World 1583-1671 offers an account of the simultaneous emergence of colonialism and nationalism during the early modern period. It looks at the role that English interactions with native populations played in attempts to articulate a coherent English identity. Unlike most other studies of the subject, it suggests that colonialism is best understood as a phenomenon that had profound significance for people on both sides of the Atlantic
Notes
Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Aug 2014)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-239) and index