Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels: Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630: An Anthology
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0198711867
ISBN13:9780198711865
Release Date:November 2001
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.12 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"
Customer Reviews
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Hadfield's anthology offers lots of digestible morsels from important primary sources. This book serves well to introduce some of the key players in early modern travel writing, and Hadfield's introductory matter (for the book as a whole and for each categorical subset he offers) provides clues about current critical preoccupations. Of course, the problem with such an anthology is that it can only give snippets, but Hadfield's choice to cover a wide range of primary selections makes for a volume of breadth if not always depth. That said, sometimes reading more than a short extract of some of the authors in this edition can cause sudden sleep syndrome anyway, so I also respect the snippet form. On the whole, a very helpful guidebook for those interested in exploring early modern travel writing and a gateway to further reading on the topic. Excellent for use in a college or grad level seminar.
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