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Landscape and Identity in North America's Southern Colonies from 1660 to 1745 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Landscape and Identity in North America's Southern Colonies from 1660 to 1745 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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.
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