The decades leading up to England's first permanent American colony
saw not only territorial and commercial expansion but also the
emergence of a vast and heterogeneous literature. In the multiple
relations of writing to discovery over these decades, these texts
played a role more powerful than that of simple recording. They
needed to establish certain realities against a background of
scepticism - the possibility of discovery, the lands discovered,
the intentions and experiences of the discoverers - and they also
had to find ways of theorizing their enterprise. Yet conceiving of
the American enterprise positively or even survivably proved
surprisingly difficult; the voyage narratives evolved almost from
the outset as a genre concerned with recuperating failure - as
noble, strategic, even as a form of success. Reception of these
texts from the Victorian era on has often accepted their claims of
heroism and mastery; through a careful re-reading, Mary Fuller
argues for a more complicated, less glorious history.
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