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Autore |
Hadfield Andrew |
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Titolo |
Literature, travel, and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, 1545-1625 [[electronic resource] /] / Andrew Hadfield |
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New York, : Clarendon Press, 1998 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-38379-5 |
1-280-76652-2 |
9786610766529 |
0-19-818480-8 |
9786612383793 |
0-19-156717-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
Travel in literature |
English literature - Great Britain - Colonies - History and criticism |
British - Travel - Foreign countries - History - 16th century |
British - Travel - Foreign countries - History - 17th century |
Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism |
Politics and literature - Great Britain - History |
Imperialism in literature |
Colonies in literature |
Renaissance - England |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction: Changing Places in English Renaissance Literature; 1 'How harmful be the errors of princes': English Travelers in (Western) Europe, 1545-1620; 2 'What is the matter with yowe Christen men?': English Colonial Literature, 1555-1625; 3 'The perfect glass of state': English Fiction from William Baldwin to John Barclay, 1553-1625; 4 'All my travels' history': Reading the Locations of Renaissance Plays; AFTERWORD; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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