Remembering the Early Modern Voyage: English Narratives in the Age of European Expansion

by M. Fuller

Overview

This book investigates the operations of memory over time through three case studies: the famous anthology by Richard Hakluyt memorializing the feats of Elizabethan voyagers, the eccentric autobiography of Captain John Smith, and the little known history of early modern Newfoundland.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230603257
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	07/01/2008
Series:	Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	259
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

MARY C. FULLER is Associate Professor of Literature at the Massachusettts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.

Table of Contents

English Worthies: the Age of Expansion Remembered Sea-Dogs: Frobisher, Grenville, and the Definition of National Selves Three Turks Heads: Reading the True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captain John Smith (1630) Rebellious Fish: Newfoundland Unremembered

Editorial Reviews

"Carefully steering its readers through New World waters, Remembering the Early Modern Voyage advances measurably our understandings of the intimate relations between boats and books, navigation, and publication. Two of Fuller s three case studies persuasively demonstrate both how crucial Hakluyt s Principal Navigations was to the establishment of English imperial history and the enshrining of some of its explorers as heroes, and how comparatively ineffective and thus unremembered were the expeditions and publications that, for one reason or another, found no place in his vast anthology. Her third case study, by foregrounding other forms of remembering than narrative publications, not only retrieves a forgotten history of whole English communities in the New World, but also throws into relief the ideological dimensions exerted by publications on historical renderings of the early modern New World." - I.S. MacLaren, Departments of History and Classics, and English and Film Studies, University of Alberta

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