Inventing Americans in the age of discovery
Subtitle: narratives of encounter
By: by Michael Householder
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780754667605; 9781409428879
Subjects: Historiography; Rhetoric; Indians; First contact with Europeans; History and criticism; English language; Early accounts to 1600; Discovery and exploration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: encounter, invention, narration; title: Narrating encounter: The book of John Mandeville; title: Translation, compilation, and triangulation: Richard Eden's invention of English discovery; title: Evolutions of racial discourse: George Best and the narration of English-Inuit encounters, 1576-1578; title: Bruites and conspiracies: Ralph Lane's narration of native counter-intelligence; title: "[Y]et hee so demeaned himselfe": John Smith's confidence games; title: Terror and tears in New England: gender, violence, victimhood, and American identity; title: Conclusion: the significance of encounter from an early Americanist perspective.