Remembering the early modern voyage : English narratives in the age of European expansion

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Remembering the early modern voyage : English narratives in the age of European expansion

Mary C. Fuller

(Early modern cultural studies)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

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

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This book investigates the operations of memory over time through three case studies: the famous anthology by Richard Hakluyt memorializing the feats of Elizabethan voyagers, the eccentric autobiography of Captain John Smith, and the little known history of early modern Newfoundland.

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English Worthies: the Age of Expansion Remembered Sea-Dogs: Frobisher, Grenville, and the Definition of National Selves Three Turks Heads: Reading the True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captain John Smith (1630) Rebellious Fish: Newfoundland Unremembered

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