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Literature, travel, and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, 1545-1625 /
Andrew Hadfield's innovative and wide-ranging study examines the ways in which Renaissance travel-writers used their works to reflect on the state of contemporary English politics. Exploring representations of Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Far East, as well as some of the problems invol...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2007, ©1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Andrew Hadfield's innovative and wide-ranging study examines the ways in which Renaissance travel-writers used their works to reflect on the state of contemporary English politics. Exploring representations of Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Far East, as well as some of the problems involved in the usual assumption that we can make sense of the past with the categories available to us, his work offers fresh readings of Shakespeare, Marlowe, More, and many others. - ;What was the purpose of representing foreign lands for writers in the English Renaissance? This innovative and wide-ranging. |
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| Notas: | Originally published: 1998. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-296) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191567179 0191567175 9780191696626 0191696625 9780199233656 0199233659 |