Remembering the early modern voyage : English narratives in the age of European expansion / Mary C. Fuller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuller, Mary C.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Early modern cultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discoveries in geography--English.

Discoveries in geography.

Explorers.

Physical Description:

xii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

Why do we remember some parts of the historical past, and forget others? Collective memory acts as a filter, a process mediated by ideology, chance, and the very structures of narrative and memory. Remembering the Early Modern Voyage uses three rich case studies to examine the operations of memory on the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century origins of Anglophone North America: Richard Hakluyt's famous anthology of Elizabethan voyages, Captain John Smith's eccentric autobiography, and the little known history of early modern Newfoundland. Attending not only to the narratives themselves, but to their use and reuse over several centuries, this book offers interrogations and recalibrations of a history still critical for the present.

Contents:

Series Editor's Foreword xv

Introduction: English Worthies: The Age of Expansion Remembered 1

1 Sea-Dogs: Frobisher, Grenville, and the Definition of National Selves 21

2 "Three Turks' Heads": Reading the True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captain John Smith (1630) 69

3 "Rebellious Fish": Newfoundland Unremembered 117.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-228) and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

0230603254

9780230603257

OCLC:

156831917

Publisher Number:

99963526694

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