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 failure—as 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 failure—as 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

Voyages in Print: English Narratives of Travel to America 1576-1624

by Mary C. Fuller
Voyages in Print: English Narratives of Travel to America 1576-1624

Voyages in Print: English Narratives of Travel to America 1576-1624

by Mary C. Fuller

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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 failure—as 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521481618
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 09/28/1995
Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture , #7
Pages: 228
Product dimensions: 6.26(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.71(d)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Early ventures: writing under the Gilbert and Ralegh patents; 2. Ralegh's discoveries: the two voyages to Guiana; 3. Mastering words: the Jamestown colonists and John Smith; 4. The 'great prose epic': Hakluyt's Voyages; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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