In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery

by Annette Kolodny

In Search of First Contact is a monumental achievement by the influential literary critic Annette Kolodny. In this book, she offers a radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the Vinland sagas. She contends that they are the first known European narratives about contact with North America. After carefully explaining the evidence for that conclusion, Kolodny examines what happened after 1837, when English translations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822352869
• ISBN13: 9780822352860
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"