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

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung American colonial 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; this study argues for a more complicated! less glorious history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Mary C. Fuller, Mary C. (Massachusetts Institute of Techno Fuller, Fuller Mary C.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2007
• EAN: 9780521036504
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03650-4
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissan; Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Travel > Travel guides > North and Central America; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, TRAVEL / United States / General, Travel & holiday, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Travel and holiday, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800