Amazons, savages, and machiavels : travel and colonial writing in English, 1550-1630 : an anthology / edited by Andrew Hadfield.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hadfield, Andrew.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travelers' writings, English.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700.

English literature.

English literature--Early modern.

British--Foreign countries--Literary collections.

British.

Colonies.

British--Foreign countries.

Great Britain--Colonies--Literary collections.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xiii, 321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Amazons, savages & machiavels

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels is an accessible and unique anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the narratives of discovery of the New World but also accounts of cultures already well known through trade links, such as Turkey and the Moluccan islands, and of places that featured just as significantly in the early modern English imagination: from Ireland to Russia and the Far East, from Calais to India and Africa, from France and Italy to the West Indies. Ranging from Raleigh's account of the Amazons and Captain John Smith's story of Pocahontas to Coryat's cheerful encounter with a Venetian courtesan and Florio's translation of Montaigne's famous "Of the Cannibals," the volume also includes helpful headnotes, a substantial introduction, chronology, full bibliography, and seventeen original illustrations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-316) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0198711867

0198711875

OCLC:

46641905