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Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance, 1545-1625 (Paperback)
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Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance, 1545-1625 (Paperback)
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What was the purpose of representing foreign lands for writers in
the English Renaissance? This innovative and wide-ranging study
argues that writers often used their works as vehicles to reflect
on the state of contemporary English politics, particularly their
own lack of representation in public institutions. Sometimes such
analyses took the form of displaced allegories, whereby writers
contrasted the advantages enjoyed, or disadvantages suffered, by
foreign subjects with the political conditions of Tudor and Stuart
England. Elsewhere, more often in explicitly colonial writings,
authors meditated on the problems of government when faced with the
possibly violent creation of a new society. If Venice was commonly
held up as a beacon of republican liberty which England would do
well to imitate, the fear of tyrannical Catholic Spain was ever
present - inspiring and haunting much of the colonial literature
from 1580 onwards. This stimulating book examines fictional and
non-fictional writings, illustrating both the close connections
between the two made by early modern readers and the problems
involved in the usual assumption that we can make sense of the past
with the categories available to us. Hadfield explores in his work
representations of Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Far East,
selecting pertinent examples rather than attempting to embrace a
total coverage. He also offers fresh readings of Shakespeare,
Marlowe, More, Lyly, Hakluyt, Harriot, Nashe, and others.
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