Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers: The Diligent Writers of Early America

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"Send those on land that will show themselves diligent writers." So urged the "sailing instructions" prepared for explorer Henry Hudson. With distinctive command of the primary texts created by such "diligent writers" as Columbus, William Bradford, and Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin describes how the New World was created from their new words. The long verbal discovery of America, he asserts, entailed both advance and retreat, sudden insights and blind insistence on old ways of seeing. The discoverers, explorers, and settlers depicted America ...

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"Send those on land that will show themselves diligent writers." So urged the "sailing instructions" prepared for explorer Henry Hudson. With distinctive command of the primary texts created by such "diligent writers" as Columbus, William Bradford, and Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin describes how the New World was created from their new words. The long verbal discovery of America, he asserts, entailed both advance and retreat, sudden insights and blind insistence on old ways of seeing. The discoverers, explorers, and settlers depicted America in words—or via maps, tables, and landscape views—as a complex spatial and political entity, a place where ancient formula and current fact were inevitably at odds.

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Paperback edition of the 1979 publication by the U. of Chicago Press. Franklin (English and American studies, U. of Iowa) surveys a variety of discovery, exploration, and settlement narratives taken from all areas of the New World between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780226260716
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date: 10/1/1979
  • Pages: 252

Table of Contents

List of Plates Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction: Language and Event in New World History
1. Discovery Narrative An Adventure of the Eye Alone
2. Exploratory Narrative Many Goodly Tokens
3. Settlement Narrative Like an Ancient Mother Conclusion Epilogue: A Wilderness of Books Notes Index

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