The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures : Empire, Travel, Modernity (Paperback)

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Prospero's progeny; 2. Mythos and epos: Cabeza de Vacas's empire of peace; 3. The geography of history: Samuel Purchas and 'his' pilgrims; 4. 'True histories': the captivities of Francisco Nunez de Pineda y Bascunan and Mary White Rowlandson; 5. 'Friends and compatriots': Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora and the piracy of knowledge; 6. 'Husquenawing': William Byrd's 'Creolean humours'; 7. Dismembering the empira: Alonso Carrio de la Vandera and J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur; Notes; Index.