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The early years of English settlement in the us were seen as a catastrophe: hunger, disease, extreme assault, ruinous ignorance, and serial abandonment. Periods of Misery offers a provocative reexamination of the British colonies' chaotic and profoundly unstable beginnings, placing problems - both experiential and existential - at the center of the story. In the outposts of any fledgling empire and disconnected from the interpersonal order of their home society, British settlers were both in physical form and psychologically estranged off their Western identities. They could not control, or often even endure, the world that they had intended to possess. According to Kathleen Donegan, it is at this cauldron of doubt that colonial id was formed. Studying the British settlements at Roanoke, Jamestown, Plymouth, and Barbados, Donegan argues that catastrophe marked the threshold between a vintage European id and a fresh colonial identity, circumstances of instability where only fragments of Englishness could endure amid the upheavals of the New World.
