 | Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- History -- Sources; Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- Historiography; United States -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600–1775 -- History -- Sources; United States -- History -- Colonial period ; Seasons of Misery offers a boldly original account of early English settlement in American by placing catastrophe and crisis at the center of the story. Donegan argues that the constant state of suffering and uncertainty decisively formed the colonial identity and produced the first distinctly colonial literature. Kathleen Donegan is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. |
