Review
New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing
Studies in American Fiction, Vol.34(2), pp.245-247
10/01/2006
DOI: 10.1353/saf.2006.0004
Abstract
The seventeenth-century English literary historical context provides other models for such collation and randomness-the poetic miscellany comes to mind-and it is conceivable that Smith created a "general" history in the sense that it was to be a compilation diffused through a community of interlocutors (authors, compilers, editors). Literary ironies of the early American past seem to be at the center of Read's argument with the profession of early American studies, and while it does seem at times that every colonial textual irony is read by contemporary critics as resistance and opposition, Read has gone to the opposite extreme.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing
- Creators
- Phillip Round
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publication Details
- Studies in American Fiction, Vol.34(2), pp.245-247
- DOI
- 10.1353/saf.2006.0004
- ISSN
- 0091-8083
- eISSN
- 2158-5806
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press; Baltimore
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/2006
- Academic Unit
- English
- Record Identifier
- 9984398685702771
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