The Romance of the New World

Gender and the Literary Formations of English Colonialism

By: Joan Pong Linton, Linton Joan Pong, Stephen Orgel (Editor)

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Paperback | 14 December 2006

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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.' Kritikon Litterarum

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Love's laborers: the busy heroes of romance and empire
Sea-knights and royal virgins: American gold and its discontents in lodge's A Margarite of America (1596)
Jack of Newbery and Drake in California: domestic and colonial narratives of English cloth and manhood
Eros and science: the discourses of magical consumerism
Gender, savagery, tobacco: marketplaces for consumption
Inconstancy: coming to Indians through Troilus and Cressida
The Tempest, rape, the art and smart of Virginian husbandry
Coda: the masks of Pocahontas
Notes
Works cited
Index
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