Colonial Writing and the New World, 15831671
Subtitle: Allegories of Desire
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521035194
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; England; North America; American - General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; American prose literature--Colonial period, c; American prose literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-American - General; Ancient and Classical
First sentence: When he published his Brevissima relacion de la destruccion de las Indias in 1552 in Seville, Bartolome de Las Casas almost certainly did not foresee the use to which the tract would be put over the next century-and-a-half.