Seasons of Misery : : Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America / / Kathleen Donegan.
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...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Early American Studies
|
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 2 illus. |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
LEADER | 05395nam a22007935i 4500 | ||
---|---|---|---|
001 | 9780812209143 | ||
003 | DE-B1597 | ||
005 | 20210830012106.0 | ||
006 | m|||||o||d|||||||| | ||
007 | cr || |||||||| | ||
008 | 210830t20132014pau fo d z eng d | ||
020 | |a 9780812209143 | ||
024 | 7 | |a 10.9783/9780812209143 |2 doi | |
035 | |a (DE-B1597)449754 | ||
035 | |a (OCoLC)979577390 | ||
040 | |a DE-B1597 |b eng |c DE-B1597 |e rda | ||
041 | 0 | |a eng | |
044 | |a pau |c US-PA | ||
050 | 4 | |a E162 |b .D66 2014eb | |
072 | 7 | |a HIS036020 |2 bisacsh | |
082 | 0 | 4 | |a 973 |2 23 |
100 | 1 | |a Donegan, Kathleen, |e author. |4 aut |4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut | |
245 | 1 | 0 | |a Seasons of Misery : |b Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America / |c Kathleen Donegan. |
264 | 1 | |a Philadelphia : |b University of Pennsylvania Press, |c [2013] | |
264 | 4 | |c ©2014 | |
300 | |a 1 online resource (272 p.) : |b 2 illus. | ||
336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
347 | |a text file |b PDF |2 rda | ||
490 | 0 | |a Early American Studies | |
505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Introduction: Unsettlement -- |t Chapter 1. Roanoke: Left in Virginia -- |t Chapter 2. Jamestown: Things That Seemed Incredible -- |t Chapter 3. Plymouth: Scarce Able to Bury Their Dead -- |t Chapter 4. Barbados: Wild Extravagance -- |t Afterword: Standing Half-Amazed -- |t Notes -- |t Index -- |t Acknowledgments |
506 | 0 | |a restricted access |u http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec |f online access with authorization |2 star | |
520 | |a 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 survive, the world they had intended to possess. According to Kathleen Donegan, it was in this cauldron of uncertainty that colonial identity was formed.Studying the English settlements at Roanoke, Jamestown, Plymouth, and Barbados, Donegan argues that catastrophe marked the threshold between an old European identity and a new colonial identity, a state of instability in which only fragments of Englishness could survive amid the upheavals of the New World. This constant state of crisis also produced the first distinctively colonial literature as settlers attempted to process events that they could neither fully absorb nor understand. Bringing a critical eye to settlers' first-person accounts, Donegan applies a unique combination of narrative history and literary analysis to trace how settlers used a language of catastrophe to describe unprecedented circumstances, witness unrecognizable selves, and report unaccountable events. Seasons of Misery addresses both the stories that colonists told about themselves and the stories that we have constructed in hindsight about them. In doing so, it offers a new account of the meaning of settlement history and the creation of colonial identity. | ||
530 | |a Issued also in print. | ||
538 | |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
546 | |a In English. | ||
588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) | |
650 | 0 | |a Frontier and pioneer life |z United States |v Sources. | |
650 | 0 | |a Frontier and pioneer life |z United States |x Historiography. | |
650 | 0 | |a Frontier and pioneer life |z United States |x Sources. | |
650 | 4 | |a American Studies. | |
650 | 7 | |a HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775). |2 bisacsh | |
653 | |a American History. | ||
653 | |a American Studies. | ||
773 | 0 | 8 | |i Title is part of eBook package: |d De Gruyter |t Penn Press eBook Package American History |z 9783110413496 |
773 | 0 | 8 | |i Title is part of eBook package: |d De Gruyter |t Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection |z 9783110413458 |
773 | 0 | 8 | |i Title is part of eBook package: |d De Gruyter |t University of Pennsylvania Press Complete Package 2014-2015 |z 9783110665932 |
776 | 0 | |c print |z 9780812245400 | |
856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812209143 |
856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812209143 |
856 | 4 | 2 | |3 Cover |u https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812209143.jpg |
912 | |a 978-3-11-041345-8 Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection | ||
912 | |a 978-3-11-041349-6 Penn Press eBook Package American History | ||
912 | |a 978-3-11-066593-2 University of Pennsylvania Press Complete Package 2014-2015 |c 2014 |d 2015 | ||
912 | |a EBA_BACKALL | ||
912 | |a EBA_CL_HICS | ||
912 | |a EBA_EBACKALL | ||
912 | |a EBA_EBKALL | ||
912 | |a EBA_ECL_HICS | ||
912 | |a EBA_EEBKALL | ||
912 | |a EBA_ESSHALL | ||
912 | |a EBA_PPALL | ||
912 | |a EBA_SSHALL | ||
912 | |a GBV-deGruyter-alles | ||
912 | |a PDA11SSHE | ||
912 | |a PDA13ENGE | ||
912 | |a PDA17SSHEE | ||
912 | |a PDA5EBK |