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  • Index
  • Abbey, Edward, 27, 35–36, 43

  • Achinstein, Sharon, ix, 252

  • Ackroyd, Peter, 28–43

  • Acosta, José de, 14

  • Adam, 3–4; apple and, 82; in Book of Mormon, 126; cosmology and, 106–07; in Pratt, 129; reason and, 113–14; as Taino, 96; West and, 21–22

  • Adams, John, 27

  • Africa, 154–55

  • African Americans, 145–47, 162–63. See also slave trade

  • Alazraki, Jaime, 198n9

  • Alexandra (Lycophron), 248

  • alterity, 3, 191

  • Álvarez Bonilla, Enrique, 206–07

  • Amazons, 19

  • American exceptionalism, 87–88

  • American Revolution, 91, 93

  • Amorose, Thomas, 252

  • Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus (Milton), 5–6, 7

  • "Answer, The" (Rochfort), 153–55, 157–61

  • Apology against a Pamphlet, An (Milton), 6, 7, 184

  • apple trees, 67–68, 71–84

  • Aquinas, Thomas, 34

  • Areopagitica (Milton), 8, 31, 208, 212–13, 228–30, 234–37

  • Argentina, 186, 191. See also Borges, Jorge Luis

  • Aristophanes, 34

  • Aristotle, 186

  • Arsić, Branka, 71, 85n34

  • Atabalipa, 21, 105

  • Aubrey, John, 228

  • "Author as Plagiarist, The" (Castro Rocha), 169

  • Bacon, Francis, 214, 229, 234

  • Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World (Koeppel), 59

  • banana tree, 53–54, 59–60, 65n47

  • banyan tree, 49–50, 51–53, 55–59

  • Barbados, 54–56

  • Barlow, Joel, 17, 87–99

  • Barnstone, Willis, 183

  • Beckett, Samuel, 190

  • Beer, Gillian, 104, 111–12, 118

  • Beers, Henry, 231–32

  • Behaim, Martin, 4

  • Berkeley, George, 89–90

  • Bickford, Ian, 66n50

  • Biographia literaria (Coleridge), 77

  • Biswell, Andrew, 36

  • Black Legend, 14

  • Blake, William, 106, 108

  • Blakemore, Steven, 91

  • blindness, 191–94, 199n26

  • Bloom, Harold, 187

  • "Blueprint for Negro Writing" (Wright), 145 [End Page 255]

  • Bøggild, Jacob, 173

  • Book of Abraham (Smith), 139n4

  • Book of Mormon (Smith), 125–26

  • Borges, Jorge Luis, xi, 100n8, 172–73, 183–97, 199n26, 200n29

  • Botanic Garden, The (Darwin), 108

  • botany, 49–61

  • Bourne, Nicholas, 15

  • Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, 89

  • Bradburn, Eliza Weaver, 128

  • Bradford, William, 11

  • Brazil, 9

  • Brazilian Othello of Machado de Assis, The (Caldwell), 169–70

  • Briefe and true report on the new found land of Virginia (de Bry), 19

  • Briggs, LeBaron Russell, 237–38

  • Brodie, Fawn, 139n4

  • Brown, Eric, ix Bry, Theodor de, 19

  • Burnet, Thomas, 33

  • Burrow, Colin, 223–24

  • Bush, Douglas, 251

  • Button, Jemmy, 117, 121

  • Caldwell, Helen, 169–70

  • Calvinism, 98, 99

  • Campbell, Gordon, 27–28, 247, 248

  • Canada, 8

  • Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer), 240–41

  • Caretta, Vincent, 152, 154

  • Carner, Josep, 208, 214–15

  • Castro Rocha, João César, 169

  • Cathay, 8

  • Catholics, 37–38

  • Cervantes, Miguel de, 187

  • Chancellor, Richard, 8

  • Channing, William Emery, 128–29, 132

  • Chaos, 95, 96, 118, 121, 146, 228

  • Charles Grandison (Richardson), 105

  • Chaucer, Geoffrey, 234, 239–41, 246

  • Chaucer Studies, 246

  • Child, Francis, 234, 243n22

  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. See Mormonism

  • Cicero, 189

  • "El Ciego" (The blind man) (Borges), 184–85, 192–94, 200n31

  • Civil War (United States), 224

  • Coiro, Ann Baynes, 253

  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 77

  • colonialism, 50, 59–61, 62n2, 64n31, 88, 151

  • Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583–1671 (Scanlon), xi

  • "Colonization of Paradise, The" (Martin), 3

  • Colón Semenza, Gregory M., ix, 8

  • Columbiad, The (Barlow), 87–99

  • Columbus, Christopher, 4, 19, 21, 91, 92–93, 97–98

  • Comus (Milton), 225

  • Concept of Irony, The (Kierkegaard), 173

  • Cope, Jackson, 250

  • Corns, Thomas, ix, 27–28, 248

  • Cortés, Hernán, 93

  • Cosmographie (Heylyn), 4, 5, 22

  • cosmos, 9–10

  • Creation, 16, 127, 134, 178

  • Cromwell, Oliver, 13–14, 42

  • Curbet Soler, Juan, 208

  • Curran, Stuart, 252

  • Cuzco, 22

  • Dante, 96, 183

  • Darwin, Charles, 34, 103–22

  • Darwin, Erasmus, 108

  • Davenant, Sir William, 15

  • De doctrina Christiana (Milton), 34, 106, 127–28, 134, 138

  • Defence of the Humble Remonstrance (Hall), 6

  • deism, 33, 91

  • Demmon, Isaac, 229

  • Dennie, James, 100n12

  • Derrida, Jacques, 168, 172

  • Descent of Man, The (Darwin), 112, 119, 120

  • Díaz, Porfirio, 203, 215–16

  • Di Cesare, Mario, 250

  • Dick, Thomas, 127, 130–32, 138, 140n17, 141n24

  • Dickinson, Emily, 78

  • Dillman, Jefferson, 55

  • Diodorus of Sicily, 4

  • directional poetics, 88

  • DiSalvo, Jackie, 94 [End Page 256]

  • Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empyre of Guiana (Raleigh), 5, 22

  • Dom Casmurro (Machado de Assis), 168–70, 173–80, 181n5

  • Dominican Republic, 65n47

  • Donne, John, 231, 239...

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