Writing Tudor Exploration

Richard Eden and West Africa

Matthew Dimmock (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

76 Seiten

2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-04585-8 (ISBN)

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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 added late in the printing process. Both concern English commercial ventures to the West African coast, undertaken despite vehement Portuguese protests and in the midst of the profound alteration of the Marian succession. Both are complex, contradictory, and innovative experiments in generic form and content. This Element closely examines Eden's assembly and framing of these accounts, engaging with issues of material culture, travel writing, new knowledge, race, and the negotiation of political and religious change. In the process it repositions West Africa and Eden at the heart of a lost history of early English expansionism.

Preface; Introduction: Writing Tudor Exploration; 1. Paper: Eden's Decades; 2. Gold: The First Guinea Voyage; 3. Ivory: The Second Guinea Voyage; Conclusions; References.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Travel Writing
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	120 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-009-04585-7 / 1009045857
ISBN-13	978-1-009-04585-8 / 9781009045858
Zustand	Neuware