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Nathan J Probasco

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ID5841947
NAMENathan J Probasco
GIVEN NAMESNathan J
FAMILY NAMEProbasco
SIGNATUREPROBASCO N J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS3
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT3
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX0
  • The Huguenot Experience of Persecution and Exile: Three Women’s Stories . Charlotte Arbaleste Duplessis-Mornay, Anne de Chaufepié, Anne Marguerite Petit Du Noyer. Colette H. Winn, ed. Lauren King, Col…

    Nathan J Probasco•ARTICLE•Early Modern Women An Interdiscipli…•2020

  • American bodies and landscapes in early English colonisation

    Nathan J Probasco•ARTICLE•Studies in Travel Writing•2018

    The illustrations of sixteenth-century Algonquian-speaking peoples of present-day North Carolina by Theodore de Bry and John White are among the most recognisable images associated with European colonisation, and reading the differences between the two sets in the light of contemporary travel literature clarifies the commercial interests of England’s colonisation promoters. De Bry attenuated “native” characteristics like ritual tattooing and made…

  • Virgin America for Barren England: English Colonial History and Literature, 1575–1635

    Open Access•Nathan J Probasco•ARTICLE•Literature Compass•2012•References: 15

    The ‘virgin land’ metaphor that anthropomorphized the Americas as a fecund female was a prominent motif for colonization promoters in Renaissance England. Scholars have pointed to the misogynistic and racist tendencies of male English colonizers like Walter Ralegh when explaining the meaning of these comparisons, but England’s societal problems shed additional light upon the prominence of the allegory in colonial history. England’s growing poor p…

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  • Virgin America for Barren England: English Colonial History and Literature, 1575–1635

    Open Access•Nathan J Probasco•ARTICLE•Literature Compass•2012•References: 15

    The ‘virgin land’ metaphor that anthropomorphized the Americas as a fecund female was a prominent motif for colonization promoters in Renaissance England. Scholars have pointed to the misogynistic and racist tendencies of male English colonizers like Walter Ralegh when explaining the meaning of these comparisons, but England’s societal problems shed additional light upon the prominence of the allegory in colonial history. England’s growing poor p…

  • American bodies and landscapes in early English colonisation

    Nathan J Probasco•ARTICLE•Studies in Travel Writing•2018

    The illustrations of sixteenth-century Algonquian-speaking peoples of present-day North Carolina by Theodore de Bry and John White are among the most recognisable images associated with European colonisation, and reading the differences between the two sets in the light of contemporary travel literature clarifies the commercial interests of England’s colonisation promoters. De Bry attenuated “native” characteristics like ritual tattooing and made…

  • The Huguenot Experience of Persecution and Exile: Three Women’s Stories . Charlotte Arbaleste Duplessis-Mornay, Anne de Chaufepié, Anne Marguerite Petit Du Noyer. Colette H. Winn, ed. Lauren King, Col…

    Nathan J Probasco•ARTICLE•Early Modern Women An Interdiscipli…•2020

History (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Colonization (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Allegory (1 works) · Art history (1 works)

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