In the decades leading up to England's first permanent American colony, the literature that emerged needed to establish certain realities against a background of skepticism, and it also had to find ways of theorizing the enterprise. The voyage narratives evolved almost from the outset as a genre concerned with recuperating failureas noble, strategic, even as a form of success. Reception of these texts since the Victorian era has often accepted their claims of heroism and mastery; this study argues for a more complicated, less glorious history.
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Voyages in Print: English Narratives of Travel to America 1576-1624
In the decades leading up to England's first permanent American colony, the literature that emerged needed to establish certain realities against a background of skepticism, and it also had to find ways of theorizing the enterprise. The voyage narratives evolved almost from the outset as a genre concerned with recuperating failureas noble, strategic, even as a form of success. Reception of these texts since the Victorian era has often accepted their claims of heroism and mastery; this study argues for a more complicated, less glorious history.
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Voyages in Print: English Narratives of Travel to America 1576-1624
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Voyages in Print: English Narratives of Travel to America 1576-1624
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ISBN-13: | 9780521036504 |
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Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Publication date: | 05/31/2007 |
Series: | Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture , #7 |
Edition description: | Reissue |
Pages: | 228 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d) |
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