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...2005), seems like a wistful tilting at windmills. In his effort to "present an alternative to ... interpreting early European colonialism ... [as] a kind of large-scale intentionality," Read offers readings drawn from a select group of early American texts that highlight "the efforts of individual writers to articulate a historical phenomenon and their own involvement in it" (10, 9). To many readers of early modern English texts and criticism, Read's approach will no doubt sound sound like a reactionary call for a return to old fashioned "intention," canonical works, and new critical formalism.
Despite its introductory polemic, however, New World, Known World is not as intransigent as it sounds. It offers...
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