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New World, Known World examines the works of four writers closely associated with the early period of English colonization, from 1624 to 1649: John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia, William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, Thomas Morton's New English Canaan, and Roger Williams's A Key into the Language of America (in conjunction with another of Williams's major works, The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution). David Read addresses these texts as examples of what he refers to as "individual knowledge projects"— the writers' attempts to shape raw information and experience into patterns and narratives that can be compared with and assessed against others from a given society's fund of accepted knowledge.
Read argues that the body of Western knowledge in the period immediately before the development of well-defined scientific disciplines is primarily the work of individuals functioning in relative isolation, rather than institutions working in concert. The European colonization of other regions in the same period exposes in a way few historical situations do both the complexity and the uncertainty involved in the task of producing knowledge.
Read treats each work as the project of a specific mind, reflecting a high degree of intentionality and design, and not simply as a collection of documentary evidence to be culled in the service of a large-scale argument. He shows that each author adds a distinct voice to the experience of North American colonization and that each articulates it in ways that are open to analysis in terms of form, style, convention, rhetorical strategies, and applications of metaphor and allegory.
By applying the tools of literary interpretation to colonial texts, Read reaches a fuller understanding of the immediate consequences of English colonization in North America on the culture's base of knowledge. Students and scholars of early modern colonialism and transatlantic studies, as well as those with interests in seventeenth-century American and English literature, should find this book of particular value.
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Dana Burge
reviewed New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing on August 25, 2016
New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing
This small book was exceedingly helpful. It combines Green's biography as well as an analysis of her work. The daughter of a criminal attorney, Green was the first woman to write a detective novel. George Putnam with his new company accepted it. Previously, publishers had felt that it was a genre that was not appropriate for women. She wrote thirty-five novels, twenty-three short stories, a volume of poetry and a poetic drama. She set the stage for much of what was to emerge. She influenced Agatha Christie among others. She had two female detectives, Amelia Butterworth and Violet Strange. Some of what needs to be considered when discussing her was that she was a social novelist demonstrating what the class system was like in New York City at the time. The role of women in her novels also has to be discussed. Even when they are strong characters, they are often victims, reflecting the role of women at the time. Green was no suffragette, but in her detectives she showed enterprising women. She was concerned about the impact of fathers on the family. She reflected the patriarchy of the time. She had a detective in the mould of Dickens Sergeant Cuff. She was an innovator who always constructed her mysteries carefully and also used the rational to uncover the crime. There were usually family secrets that were revealed. She also had doubles, like the two nieces in The Leavenworth Case. In other books, it might be two brothers.
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