Imagining Columbus is Stavans's contribution to the literature on Columbus. 'My purpose,' says Stavans, 'is to revisit, to investigate, to play with the asymmet

Provides resources for teaching elementary and secondary school students about Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America.

In his book Imagining America (originally published in 1980), Peter Conrad shows how the English literary imagination over the course of a century devised for i

Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictionalizing make

This is a study of the manner in which certain mythical notions of the world become accepted as fact. Dathorne shows how particular European concepts such as El