I would also have found interesting a more thorough discussion of the reception history of Beverley's book. In reading this excellent introduction, I occasionally craved further discussion of how Beverley's Edenic rhetoric-his perpetuation of the myth of inexhaustible natural resources-might be situated within an older tradition of promotional writing. "To perceive experience of the world and the reasons he constructed his History the way he did," she writes, "one must place Beverley within an imperial transatlantic geography rather than a protonationalist American one" (xi). Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore (review) Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore (review)Ģ38 }EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE: VOLUME 50, NUMBER 1 ary value revealed the nationalism of postWorld War II literary criticism, Parrish's transatlantic contextualization of literary value reflects the global emphasis of our own literary historical moment.
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