Inventing Virginia : Sir Walter Raleigh and the rhetoric of colonization, 1584-1590 / Michael G. Moran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moran, Michael G.

Series:

Early American literature and culture through the American renaissance ; 7.

Early American literature and culture through the American renaissance, 1085-4541 ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.

Raleigh, Walter.

English language--Rhetoric.

English language.

English language--Discourse analysis.

Written communication--Virginia--History--16th century.

Written communication.

Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Sources.

Virginia.

Virginia--Discovery and exploration--British--Sources.

Virginia--Description and travel--Sources.

Outer Banks (N.C.)--Description and travel--Sources.

Outer Banks (N.C.).

Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--Sources.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Commerce--Virginia--History--16th century--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1584 Walter Raleigh received a patent from Queen Elizabeth to settle an English colony on Roanoke Island, on the Outer Banks of present-day North Carolina, soon to be named Virginia. Within the next few years, he sent a reconnaissance voyage and two actual colonies (both of which failed) to explore and settle the region. To support his colonization efforts, Raleigh assembled a group of communication experts who wrote reports and produced ethnographic drawings of the people and maps of the region to interest potential investors and colonists in the project. Inventing Virginia is the first book to thoroughly explore the communication strategies that Raleigh's circle developed and applied in Virginia. This book will make important contributions to several fields, including technical and commercial communication, early American literature, Renaissance literature (especially prose studies), and rhetorical theory and practice.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-253) and index.

ISBN:

1-4539-0679-7

OCLC:

646523499