Elements in Travel Writing – serie
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Writing Tudor Exploration
Richard Eden and West Africa
Häftad, 2022
354 kr
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Richard Eden's Decades has long been recognised as a landmark in the translation and circulation of information concerning the Americas in England. What is often overlooked in Eden's book is the presence of the first two Tudor voyage accounts to have been committed to print, assembled in haste and …
Writing about Discovery in the Early Modern East Indies
Av Su Fang Ng
Häftad, 2022
354 kr
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Portuguese explorations opened the sea-route to Asia, bringing armed trading to the Indian Ocean. This Element examines the impact of the 1511 Portuguese conquest of the port-kingdom of Melaka on early travel literature. Putting into dialogue accounts from Portuguese, mestiço, and Malay …
Writing Mobile Lives, 1500-1700
Häftad, 2024
327 kr
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This Element develops and showcases a new methodological framework in which to study the connections between early modern travel writing and life- and self-writing. Turning the scholarly focus in the study of travel writing from eye-witnessing and proto-ethnography of foreign lands to the …
The Invention of Colonialism
Richard Hakluyt and Medieval Travel Writing
Häftad, 2025
324 kr
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This Element argues that it was not just the application of medieval texts by Richard Hakluyt that made them relevant for England's budding colonial ideology; rather, it shows that these premodern texts already conveyed the essence of the expansionist mercantilism and colonialist imperialism that …
Writing Mobile Lives, 1500-1700
Inbunden, 2024
967 kr
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This Element develops and showcases a new methodological framework in which to study the connections between early modern travel writing and life- and self-writing. Turning the scholarly focus in the study of travel writing from eye-witnessing and proto-ethnography of foreign lands to the …
Listening to Early Modern Travel Writing
Sound, Bodies and Purchas His Pilgrimes
Inbunden, 2026
1039 kr
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This Element demonstrates that the epistemic value of sound and listening (real and imagined) was central to early modern travel writing. It argues that traveller-writers and their editors, in this case Samuel Purchas, intentionally stimulated the ears and auditory imaginations of their …
Listening to Early Modern Travel Writing
Sound, Bodies and Purchas His Pilgrimes
Häftad, 2026
318 kr
Kommande
This Element demonstrates that the epistemic value of sound and listening (real and imagined) was central to early modern travel writing. It argues that traveller-writers and their editors, in this case Samuel Purchas, intentionally stimulated the ears and auditory imaginations of their …
The Invention of Colonialism
Richard Hakluyt and Medieval Travel Writing
Inbunden, 2025
1048 kr
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This Element argues that it was not just the application of medieval texts by Richard Hakluyt that made them relevant for England's budding colonial ideology; rather, it shows that these premodern texts already conveyed the essence of the expansionist mercantilism and colonialist imperialism that …
Eco-Travel
Journeying in the Age of the Anthropocene
Häftad, 2022
332 kr
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Human encounters with the natural world are inseparable from the history of travel. Nature, as fearsome obstacle, a wonder to behold or a source of therapeutic refuge, is bound up with the story of human mobility. Stories of this mobility give readers a sense of the diversity of the natural world, …
