The romance of the New World : gender and the literary formations of English colonialism

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Label

The romance of the New World : gender and the literary formations of English colonialism

Title remainder

gender and the literary formations of English colonialism

Statement of responsibility

Joan Pong Linton

Creator

• Linton, Joan Pong

Subject

• America
• America -- Discovery and exploration | English
• America -- In literature
• Bellettrie
• Colonies in literature
• Colonies in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Discovery and exploration, English
• Electronic books
• Engels
• England
• English literature -- American influences
• English literature -- American influences
• English literature -- Early modern
• English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
• Explorers in literature
• Explorers in literature
• Gender identity in literature
• Gender identity in literature
• Geographical discoveries in literature
• Geographical discoveries in literature
• History
• Kolonialisme
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• Literature
• Literature and history
• Literature and history -- England -- History -- 16th century
• Literature and history -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Mannelijkheid
• Masculinity in literature
• Masculinity in literature
• Men in literature
• 1500-1700
• National characteristics, English, in literature
• National characteristics, English, in literature
• Sekserol
• Sex role in literature
• Sex role in literature
• Men in literature

Genre

• Electronic books
• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

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

Member of

• Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture, 27

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

820.9/358

Index

index present

LC call number

PR129.A4

LC item number

L56 1998eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture

Series volume

27