Next time:

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Next time

• Morton Bradford
• Responses group 6
• Abstracts Emily Bell Jana Simspon

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Responses today

• Author/work?
• Topic?
• Cabeza de Vaca
• Compare to Columbus
• Apply self-fashioning theory
• Who are authorities? Aliens?
• Especially consider description of
• Natives
• Natural World
• Other Europeans

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• Smiths three works
• Apply self-fashioning
• How does he appear in each work?
• How does his appearance change?
• Consider form, content, function
• Let intro help you
• Frethornes letters
• Apply self-fashioning

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Geographical Placement

• Spanish, South Southwest
• Smith, Virginia Colony, Anglican
• New England, Winthrop (Puritan), Bradford
  (Separatists)

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Cabeza de Vacas account

• similar reference to Spanish monarchy
• same encyclopedic references to nature
• similar descriptions of natives as among
  American resources

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Use the intro

• Form
• Content
• Function
• Genre?

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Look at passages
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Content

• community of explorers whites become others
• - Governor suggests splitting (p. 133)
• - We See Traces of Christians (p. 138)
• positive descriptions of the natives (p. 135)
• - reasons they suckle their young
• - how they deal with marital disputes
• more religious overtones
• - healing of the sick
• -rituals intelligence
• Because de Vacas exploration wasnt successful
  in economic gain or physical survival, success
  must be spiritual.

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John Smith

• A Description of New England (1616)
• Generall Historie of Virginia (1624)
• Advertisement for the Unexperienced Planters of
  New-England (1631)

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Use the intro

• Form
• Content
• Function
• Genre

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A Description of New England (1616)

• - rhetorical questions engage readers in opening
• - appeal to fisherman hunters with abundance
• - address to elite and yeomen class aspiring
  bourgeoisie
• - purpose is not to record details and gain
  support of monarchy, but to attract settlers

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Smith, continued

• Generall Historie of Virginia (1624)
• - third person he
• - female protagonist goes against her traditions
  and authority figure to do what is right
• - dishonest, vicious natives

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Smith, continued

• Advertisement for the Unexperienced Planters of
  New-England (1631)

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Next time

• Bradford Morton
• Economics
• Self-fashioning authorities aliens?
• Natives
• Land
• Religious authority, including texts