Land, labor, and colonial economics in Thomas Morton's New English Canaan.(Critical essay)

From: Early American Literature | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

As long as critics have written about it, Thomas Morton's New English Canaan has been positioned as a counterhistory to William Bradford's canonical Of Plymouth Plantation. One vein of critical reception has dismissed Morton's text as a flawed literary anomaly, effectively repeating Bradford's own befuddled and anxious response to Morton's aesthetics. (1) A smaller but impassioned vein of literary criticism has, in turn, elevated Morton over Bradford on the basis of his egalitarianism, proto-environmentalism, or multiculturalism avant la lettre--essentially celebrating Morton as a ...

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