VOYAGES IN PRINT by Mary C. Fuller ( 9780521036504 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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VOYAGES IN PRINT
ENGLISH NARRATIVES OF TRAVEL TO AMERICA 1576-1624

By:

Mary C. Fuller

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052103650X

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9780521036504

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 May, 2007

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature & Culture No. 7

Pages:

228

Description:

A re-reading of American colonial voyage narratives and their reception since the Victorian era.

Synopsis:

The decades leading up to England's first permanent American colony saw not only territorial and commercial expansion but also the emergence of a vast and heterogeneous literature. In the multiple relations of writing to discovery over these decades, these texts played a role more powerful than that of simple recording. They needed to establish certain realities against a background of scepticism - the possibility of discovery, the lands discovered, the intentions and experiences of the discoverers - and they also had to find ways of theorizing their enterprise. Yet conceiving of the American enterprise positively or even survivably proved surprisingly difficult; the voyage narratives evolved almost from the outset as a genre concerned with recuperating failure - as noble, strategic, even as a form of success. Reception of these texts from the Victorian era on has often accepted their claims of heroism and mastery; through a careful re-reading, Mary Fuller argues for a more complicated, less glorious history.

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21 b/w illus.

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