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Coryat's Crudities - Selections (Paperback, abridged edition annotated edition)
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Coryat's Crudities - Selections (Paperback, abridged edition annotated edition)
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The early seventeenth-century traveler Thomas Coryate's five-month
tour of Western Europe culminated in Coryats Crudities, one of the
strangest travelogues published in early modern England. A
charismatic raconteur, Coryate blends his detailed ""observations""
of churches, palaces, and local customs (including the firstaccount
of forks in English) with lengthy historical digressions and lively
accounts of personal misadventure. Coryate, who had strong
connections to the political, legal, and literary circles of early
modern England, became a figure well known for his eccentricity and
odd style, though he was also respected for his antiquarian
scholarship and facility with foreign languages. Now, he is
remembered as one of the most unique travel-writing voices ever
known in English letters. This edition abridges Crudities' more
than 900 pages to a manageable size, focusing on episodes most
likely to be of interest to students - such as Coryat's
descriptions of Venetian mountebanks, courtesans, and Jews; his
crossing of the Alps; and his attendance at a Corpus Christi
celebration in Paris. An engaging introduction situates the book in
the context of Coryat's fascinating life, and the text is helpfully
annotated throughout. The selection of contextual materials
includes illustrations from the first edition, along with a
sampling from another eccentric feature of the Crudities: a
collection of mock commendatory poems making fun of Coryate and his
journey, contributed by dozens of noblemen and literati (including
the poets Ben Jonson and John Donne). Coryate, who was in on the
joke, carefully curated the comic persona emerging from these
verses, making creative use of media culture to gain personal
celebrity.
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