Book ID: CBB001421379

Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe (2012)

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Carey, Daniel (Editor)


Ashgate


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: 398 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe is an interdisciplinary collection of 24 essays which brings together leading international scholarship on Hakluyt and his work. Best known as editor of The Principal Navigations (1589; expanded 1598-1600), Hakluyt was a key figure in promoting English colonial and commercial expansion in the early modern period. He also translated major European travel texts, championed English settlement in North America, and promoted global trade and exploration via a Northeast and Northwest Passage. His work spanned every area of English activity and aspiration, from Muscovy to America, from Africa to the Near East, and India to China and Japan, providing up-to-date information and establishing an ideological framework for English rivalries with Spain, Portugal, France, and the Netherlands. This volume resituates Hakluyt in the political, economic, and intellectual context of his time. The genre of the travel collection to which he contributed emerged from Continental humanist literary culture. Hakluyt adapted this tradition for nationalistic purposes by locating a purported history of 'English' enterprise that stretched as far back as he could go in recovering antiquarian records. The essays in this collection advance the study of Hakluyt's literary and historical resources, his international connections, and his rhetorical and editorial practice. The volume is divided into 5 sections: 'Hakluyt's Contexts'; 'Early Modern Travel Writing Collections'; 'Editorial Practice'; 'Allegiances and Ideologies: Politics, Religion, Nation'; and 'Hakluyt: Rhetoric and Writing'. The volume concludes with an account of the formation and ethos of the Hakluyt Society, founded in 1846, which has continued his project to edit travel accounts of trade, exploration, and adventure.

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Authors & Contributors
Califano, Salvatore
Suzanne, Schwarz
Stedall, Jacqueline
Stanziani, Alessando
Sluyter, Andrew
Silke, Strickrodt
Concepts
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Colonialism
Great Britain, colonies
Travel; exploration
Trade
Imperialism
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
19th century
Early modern
20th century
Places
Europe
North America
China
India
Africa
Americas
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