"Richard Eden's Decades (1555) 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, a...

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Main Author:	Dimmock, Matthew 1975- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press [2022]
Series:	Elements in travel writing Cambridge elements
Subjects:	Eden, Richard > 1521-1576 Entdeckungsreise Reisebericht Westafrika Eden, Richard / 1521?-1576 Anghiera, Pietro Martire d' / 1457-1526 / De orbe novo / English Travel writing / Great Britain / History / 16th century LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory Africa, West / Discovery and exploration / British Great Britain / History, Naval / Tudors, 1485-1603
Summary:	"Richard Eden's Decades (1555) 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. Writing Tudor Exploration 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"--
Physical Description:	68 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
ISBN:	9781009045858