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The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures Empire Travel Modernity - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Author:Ralph Bauer Ralph Bauer presents a comparative investigation of colonial prose narratives in Spanish and British America from 1542 to 1800. Bauer analyzes narratives of shipwreck, captivity, and travel, as well as imperial and natural histories of the New World in the context of transformative early modern scientific ideologies. He reviews the narrative mod... more »els promoted by the "New Sciences" during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries within the context of the geopolitical question of how knowledge can be centrally controlled in outwardly expanding empires.« less