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Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America
Kathleen Donegan
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Description for Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America
Paperback. Seasons of Misery offers a boldly original account of early English settlement in American by placing catastrophe and crisis at the center of the story. Donegan argues that the constant state of suffering and uncertainty decisively formed the colonial identity and produced the first distinctly colonial literature. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBAH; HBJK; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
The stories we tell of American beginnings typically emphasize colonial triumph in the face of adversity. But the early years of English settlement in America were characterized by catastrophe: starvation, disease, extreme violence, ruinous ignorance, and serial abandonment. Seasons of Misery offers a provocative reexamination of the British colonies' chaotic and profoundly unstable beginnings, placing crisis-both experiential and existential-at the center of the story. At the outposts of a fledgling empire and disconnected from the social order of their home society, English settlers were both physically and psychologically estranged from their European identities. They could not control, or often even ... Read more
The stories we tell of American beginnings typically emphasize colonial triumph in the face of adversity. But the early years of English settlement in America were characterized by catastrophe: starvation, disease, extreme violence, ruinous ignorance, and serial abandonment. Seasons of Misery offers a provocative reexamination of the British colonies' chaotic and profoundly unstable beginnings, placing crisis-both experiential and existential-at the center of the story. At the outposts of a fledgling empire and disconnected from the social order of their home society, English settlers were both physically and psychologically estranged from their European identities. They could not control, or often even ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
Series
Early American Studies
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812223774
SKU
V9780812223774
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About Kathleen Donegan
Kathleen Donegan is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Reviews for Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America
Seasons of Misery . . . not only recovers texts or textual episodes that historians and literary critics alike seldom read or integrate into studies of early America, but it offers new ways of narrating American literary and cultural history. -Early American Literature Seasons of Misery is a smart, provocative work that belongs on the bookshelf of scholars working ... Read more