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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2009
Print publication year:
1998
Online ISBN:
9780511582691
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511582691
Subjects:
Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, British History after 1450, History
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture (27)
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Book description

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.

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'The most impressive aspect of this book is the depth of Linton's engagement with the historical materials. She also deserves a great deal of credit for bringing our attention to long neglected figures such as William Warner … Linton's use of primary historical sources is dizzyingly extensive in certain parts of this book, and her ability to see analogies and relationships between fiction and her historical sources is nothing short of brilliant.'

Source: Kritikon Litterarum

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