Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance, 1545-1625.

By: Hadfield, AndrewMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, UK, 1998Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (328 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191567179Subject(s): British -- Travel -- Foreign countries -- History -- 16th century | British -- Travel -- Foreign countries -- History -- 17th century | English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism | English literature -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History and criticism | Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History | Travel in literature | Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance, 1545-1625DDC classification: 820.9/32171241/09031 LOC classification: PR428.T73H33 2007Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction: Changing Places in English Renaissance Literature -- 1 'How harmful be the errors of princes': English Travellers in (Western) Europe, 1545-1620 -- 2 'What is the matter with yowe Christen men?': English Colonial Literature, 1555-1625 -- 3 'The perfect glass of state': English Fiction from William Baldwin to John Barclay, 1553-1625 -- 4 'All my travels' history': Reading the Locations of Renaissance Plays -- AFTERWORD -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Summary: What was the purpose of representing foreign lands for writers in the English Renaissance? This innovative and wide-ranging study argues that writers often used their works as vehicles to reflect on the state of contemporary English politics. Through critical discussions of fictional and non-fictional texts, Hadfield explores representations of Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Far East, as well as some of the problems involved in the usual assumption that wecan make sense of the past with the categories available to us. His work offers fresh readings of Shakespeare, Marlowe, More, and many others.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction: Changing Places in English Renaissance Literature -- 1 'How harmful be the errors of princes': English Travellers in (Western) Europe, 1545-1620 -- 2 'What is the matter with yowe Christen men?': English Colonial Literature, 1555-1625 -- 3 'The perfect glass of state': English Fiction from William Baldwin to John Barclay, 1553-1625 -- 4 'All my travels' history': Reading the Locations of Renaissance Plays -- AFTERWORD -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

What was the purpose of representing foreign lands for writers in the English Renaissance? This innovative and wide-ranging study argues that writers often used their works as vehicles to reflect on the state of contemporary English politics. Through critical discussions of fictional and non-fictional texts, Hadfield explores representations of Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Far East, as well as some of the problems involved in the usual assumption that wecan make sense of the past with the categories available to us. His work offers fresh readings of Shakespeare, Marlowe, More, and many others.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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