Voyages in Print: English Narratives of Travel to America 1576-1624
by Mary C. Fuller
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In the decades leading up to England's first permanent American colony, the literature that emerged needed to establish certain realities against a background of skepticism, and it also had to find ways of theorizing the enterprise. 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 since the Victorian era has often accepted their claims of heroism and mastery; this show more study argues for a more complicated, less glorious history. show lessTags
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Mary C. Fuller is Associate Professor of Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Voyages in Print: English Narratives of Travel to America 1576-1624
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- Travel, Nonfiction, History, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 917.304 — History & geography Geography & travel Geography of and travel in North America United States subdivisions and modified standard subdivisions Travel; guidebooks
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- E127 .F85 — History of the United States America Discovery of America and early explorations Post-Columbian period. El Dorado
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