Landscape and Identity in North America's Southern Colonies from 1660 to 1745
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A01=Catherine Armstrong
Allan Kulikoff
American Landscape
Anglican Ministers
Author_Catherine Armstrong
Authors Resident
Beaver Dam
British Atlantic studies
Cape Fear River
carolina
caroliniana
Caroliniana Library
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Category=NHTQ
colonial environmental history
Colonial South
early American print culture
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French Settling Colonies
gazette
Great Awakening
historical
identity formation theories
imperial expansion narratives
james
James Oglethorpe
Le Page Du Pratz
library
lords
Lords Proprietors
Mark Catesby
Natural Beauty
Natural World
North Carolinian
oglethorpe
Promotional Tracts
proprietors
representations of southern colonial landscapes
Shaftesbury Papers
society
South Carolina Gazette
Southern Colonies
SPG
St John's Island
St John’s Island
Thomas Modyford
transatlantic literary analysis
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9781409406631
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Through an analysis of textual representations of the American landscape, this book looks at how North America appeared in books printed on both sides of the Atlantic between the years 1660 and 1745. A variety of literary genres are examined to discover how authors described the landscape, climate, flora and fauna of America, particularly of the new southern colonies of Carolina and Georgia. Chapters are arranged thematically, each exploring how the relationship between English and American print changed over the 85 years under consideration. Beginning in 1660 with the impact of the Restoration on the colonial relationship, the book moves on to show how the expansion of British settlement in this period coincided with a dramatic increase in the production and consumption of the printed word and the further development of religious and scientific explanations of landscape change and climactic events. This in turn led to multiple interpretations of the American landscape dependent on factors such as whether the writer had actually visited America or not, differing purposes for writing, growing imperial considerations, and conflict with the French, Spanish and Natives. The book concludes by bringing together the three key themes: how representations of landscape varied depending on the genre of literature in which they appeared; that an author's perceived self-definition (as English resident, American visitor or American resident) determined his understanding of the American landscape; and finally that the development of a unique American identity by the mid-eighteenth century can be seen by the way American residents define the landscape and their relationship to it.
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
