Inventing Americans in the age of discovery : narratives of encounter /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Householder, Michael
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Burlington, VT ; Surrey, England : Ashgate, [2011]
Subjects:	America > Early works to 1800 > History and criticism. Indians > First contact with Europeans > Historiography. America > Discovery and exploration > Historiography. English language > Rhetoric. Engelska språket > retorik. Indianer > historia > Nordamerika. Amerika (kontinent) > historiografi.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: encounter, invention, narration
Narrating encounter: The book of John Mandeville
Translation, compilation, and triangulation: Richard Eden's invention of English discovery
Evolutions of racial discourse: George Best and the narration of English-Inuit encounters, 1576-1578
Bruites and conspiracies: Ralph Lane's narration of native counter-intelligence
"[Y]et hee so demeaned himselfe": John Smith's confidence games
Terror and tears in New England: gender, violence, victimhood, and American identity
Conclusion: the significance of encounter from an early Americanist perspective.