Overview

Here is a broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the narratives of discovery of the New World but also accounts of cultures already well known through trade links, such as Turkey and the Moluccan islands, and of places that featured just as significantly in the early modern English imagination: from Ireland to Russia and the Far East, from Calais to India and Africa, from France and Italy to the West Indies. The writings reveal painstaking attempts to understand the 'other' as well as ignorance and prejudice, surprising connections alongside phobic reactions to difference, the desire to co-operate alongside the desire to extinguish and exploit. The extracts are grouped geographically and prefaced by helpful headnotes, which supply essential information and alert readers to areas of debate. The editor provides a substantial introduction, as well as a chronology and full bibliography and seventeen original illustrations. This anthology provides a survey of what the average Renaissance reader could have found in contemporary books, and will be essential reading for anyone interested in how English men and women interacted with other cultures and countries.

Full Product Details

Author:   Andrew Hadfield (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Wales at Aberystwyth)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.496kg
ISBN:  

9780198711865

ISBN 10:   0198711867
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   20 September 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
We will order this item for you from a manufatured on demand supplier.

Table of Contents

List of Figures Abbreviations Chronology Note on the Texts General Introduction 1: Richard Eden; Roger Ascham; Richard Hakluyt (jun.); Thomas Coryat; Francis Bacon; Samuel Purchas: Motives for Travel and Instructions for Travellers 2: Sir Robert Dallington; Thomas Coryat; Sir Charles Somerset; Fynes Moryson; Sir Henry Wootton; William Lithgow: Europe 3: 'John Hawkins'; Giles Fletcher; John Leo (Africanus); George Sandys; Fynes Moryson; William Lithgow: Africa and the Near East 4: Francis Petty; 'Father Diego De Pantoia'; Sir Henry Middleton; Arthur Hatch; John Saris; 'Peter Mundy': The Far East and the South Sea Islands 5: Richard Eden; Bartolome de Las Casas; Sir George Peckham; Thomas Harriot; Sir Walter Raleigh; Michel Eyquem de Montaigne; William Strachey; Captain John Smith: The Americas Guide to Further Reading Index

Reviews

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions