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VOYAGES IN PRINT
ENGLISH NARRATIVES OF TRAVEL TO AMERICA 1576-1624 |
By: |
Mary C. Fuller, Stephen Orgel, Anne Barton |
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ISBN 10: |
0521481619 |
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9780521481618 |
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Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
28 September, 1995 |
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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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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