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Inventing Virginia : Sir Walter Raleigh and the rhetoric of colonization, 1584-1590
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Inventing Virginia : Sir Walter Raleigh and the rhetoric of colonization, 1584-1590 / Michael G. Moran.
ISBN
0820486949 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820486949 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
New York : Peter Lang, c2007.
Physical Description
xv, 261 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 04, 2007
Series
Early American literature and culture through the American renaissance, v. 7
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-253) and index.
Contents
Virginia as a garden : Arthur Barlowe's "first voyage made to the coastes of America" (1584)
Explaining a failure : Ralph Lane's 1586 Account as apologia
Thomas Hariot's A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia and the possibilities of settlement
The English gaze, Virginia, and the Roanoke Indians : John White as ethnographic illustrator
Renaissance surveying techniques and the 1590 Hariot-White-de Bry maps of Virginia
John White and the Renaissance exploration report as personal apologia
Conclusion.
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