Future History: Global Fantasies in Seventeenth-Century American and British Writings

by Kristina Bross

Future History traces the ways that English and American writers oriented themselves along an East-West axis to fantasize their place in the world. The book builds on new transoceanic scholarship and recent calls to approach early American studies from a global perspective. Such scholarship has largely focused on the early national period; Bross's work begins earlier and considers the intertwined identities of America, other English colonial sites...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190665130
• ISBN13: 9780190665135
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"