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Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe is an
interdisciplinary collection of 24 essays which brings together
leading international scholarship on Hakluyt and his work. Best
known as editor of The Principal Navigations (1589; expanded
1598-1600), Hakluyt was a key figure in promoting English colonial
and commercial expansion in the early modern period. He also
translated major European travel texts, championed English
settlement in North America, and promoted global trade and
exploration via a Northeast and Northwest Passage. His work spanned
every area of English activity and aspiration, from Muscovy to
America, from Africa to the Near East, and India to China and
Japan, providing up-to-date information and establishing an
ideological framework for English rivalries with Spain, Portugal,
France, and the Netherlands. This volume resituates Hakluyt in the
political, economic, and intellectual context of his time. The
genre of the travel collection to which he contributed emerged from
Continental humanist literary culture. Hakluyt adapted this
tradition for nationalistic purposes by locating a purported
history of 'English' enterprise that stretched as far back as he
could go in recovering antiquarian records. The essays in this
collection advance the study of Hakluyt's literary and historical
resources, his international connections, and his rhetorical and
editorial practice. The volume is divided into 5 sections:
'Hakluyt's Contexts'; 'Early Modern Travel Writing Collections';
'Editorial Practice'; 'Allegiances and Ideologies: Politics,
Religion, Nation'; and 'Hakluyt: Rhetoric and Writing'. The volume
concludes with an account of the formation and ethos of the Hakluyt
Society, founded in 1846, which has continued his project to edit
travel accounts of trade, exploration, and adventure.
Ranging from cartography to poetry and decorative design to naval
warfare across several hundred years of history, students can
access the full scope of maritime history and explore new ways of
thinking about the marine past. This book explores maritime
expertise across a wide geographical scope including Asia, the Arab
world, and the Americas, ensuring that students can understand the
global impact of sea travel in the early modern period.
Ranging from cartography to poetry and decorative design to naval
warfare across several hundred years of history, students can
access the full scope of maritime history and explore new ways of
thinking about the marine past. This book explores maritime
expertise across a wide geographical scope including Asia, the Arab
world, and the Americas, ensuring that students can understand the
global impact of sea travel in the early modern period.
Listening to what she terms 'unruly pirate voices' in early modern
English literature, in this study Claire Jowitt offers an original
and compelling analysis of the cultural meanings of 'piracy'. By
examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and also the
sometimes hard-to-distinguish privateer) Jowitt shows how flexibly
these figures served to comment on English nationalism,
international relations, and contemporary politics. She considers
the ways in which piracy can, sometimes in surprising and
resourceful ways, overlap and connect with, rather than simply
challenge, some of the foundations underpinning Renaissance
orthodoxies-absolutism, patriarchy, hierarchy of birth, and the
superiority of Europeans and the Christian religion over other
peoples and belief systems. Jowitt's discussion ranges over a
variety of generic forms including public drama, broadsheets and
ballads, prose romance, travel writing, and poetry from the
fifty-year period stretching across the reigns of three English
monarchs: Elizabeth Tudor, and James and Charles Stuart. Among the
early modern writers whose works are analyzed are Heywood, Hakluyt,
Shakespeare, Sidney, and Wroth; and among the multifaceted
historical figures discussed are Francis Drake, John Ward, Henry
Mainwaring, Purser and Clinton. What she calls the 'semantics of
piracy' introduces a rich symbolic vein in which these figures,
operating across different cultural registers and appealing to
audiences in multiple ways, represent and reflect many changing
discourses, political and artistic, in early modern England. The
first book-length study to look at the cultural impact of
Renaissance piracy, The Culture of Piracy, 1580-1630 underlines how
the figure of the Renaissance pirate was not only sensational, but
also culturally significant. Despite its transgressive nature,
piracy also comes to be seen as one of the key mechanisms which
served to connect peoples and regions during this period.
Listening to what she terms 'unruly pirate voices' in early modern
English literature, in this study Claire Jowitt offers an original
and compelling analysis of the cultural meanings of 'piracy'. By
examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and also the
sometimes hard-to-distinguish privateer) Jowitt shows how flexibly
these figures served to comment on English nationalism,
international relations, and contemporary politics. She considers
the ways in which piracy can, sometimes in surprising and
resourceful ways, overlap and connect with, rather than simply
challenge, some of the foundations underpinning Renaissance
orthodoxies-absolutism, patriarchy, hierarchy of birth, and the
superiority of Europeans and the Christian religion over other
peoples and belief systems. Jowitt's discussion ranges over a
variety of generic forms including public drama, broadsheets and
ballads, prose romance, travel writing, and poetry from the
fifty-year period stretching across the reigns of three English
monarchs: Elizabeth Tudor, and James and Charles Stuart. Among the
early modern writers whose works are analyzed are Heywood, Hakluyt,
Shakespeare, Sidney, and Wroth; and among the multifaceted
historical figures discussed are Francis Drake, John Ward, Henry
Mainwaring, Purser and Clinton. What she calls the 'semantics of
piracy' introduces a rich symbolic vein in which these figures,
operating across different cultural registers and appealing to
audiences in multiple ways, represent and reflect many changing
discourses, political and artistic, in early modern England. The
first book-length study to look at the cultural impact of
Renaissance piracy, The Culture of Piracy, 1580-1630 underlines how
the figure of the Renaissance pirate was not only sensational, but
also culturally significant. Despite its transgressive nature,
piracy also comes to be seen as one of the key mechanisms which
served to connect peoples and regions during this period.
Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe is an
interdisciplinary collection of 24 essays which brings together
leading international scholarship on Hakluyt and his work. Best
known as editor of The Principal Navigations (1589; expanded
1598-1600), Hakluyt was a key figure in promoting English colonial
and commercial expansion in the early modern period. He also
translated major European travel texts, championed English
settlement in North America, and promoted global trade and
exploration via a Northeast and Northwest Passage. His work spanned
every area of English activity and aspiration, from Muscovy to
America, from Africa to the Near East, and India to China and
Japan, providing up-to-date information and establishing an
ideological framework for English rivalries with Spain, Portugal,
France, and the Netherlands. This volume resituates Hakluyt in the
political, economic, and intellectual context of his time. The
genre of the travel collection to which he contributed emerged from
Continental humanist literary culture. Hakluyt adapted this
tradition for nationalistic purposes by locating a purported
history of 'English' enterprise that stretched as far back as he
could go in recovering antiquarian records. The essays in this
collection advance the study of Hakluyt's literary and historical
resources, his international connections, and his rhetorical and
editorial practice. The volume is divided into 5 sections:
'Hakluyt's Contexts'; 'Early Modern Travel Writing Collections';
'Editorial Practice'; 'Allegiances and Ideologies: Politics,
Religion, Nation'; and 'Hakluyt: Rhetoric and Writing'. The volume
concludes with an account of the formation and ethos of the Hakluyt
Society, founded in 1846, which has continued his project to edit
travel accounts of trade, exploration, and adventure.
Contemporary ideals of science representing disinterested and
objective fields of investigation have their origins in the
seventeenth century. However, 'new science' did not simply or
uniformly replace earlier beliefs about the workings of the natural
world, but entered into competition with them. It is this complex
process of competition and negotiation concerning ways of seeing
the natural world that is charted by the essays in this book. The
collection traces the many overlaps between 'literary' and
'scientific' discourses as writers in this period attempted both to
understand imaginatively and empirically the workings of the
natural world, and shows that a discrete separation between such
discourses and spheres is untenable. The collection is designed
around four main themes-'Philosophy, Thought and Natural
Knowledge', 'Religion, Politics and the Natural World', 'Gender,
Sexuality and Scientific Thought' and 'New Worlds and New
Philosophies.' Within these themes, the contributors focus on the
contests between different ways of seeing and understanding the
natural world in a wide range of writings from the period: in
poetry and art, in political texts, in descriptions of real and
imagined colonial landscapes, as well as in more obviously
'scientific' documents.
Contemporary ideals of science representing disinterested and
objective fields of investigation have their origins in the
seventeenth century. However, 'new science' did not simply or
uniformly replace earlier beliefs about the workings of the natural
world, but entered into competition with them. It is this complex
process of competition and negotiation concerning ways of seeing
the natural world that is charted by the essays in this book. The
collection traces the many overlaps between 'literary' and
'scientific' discourses as writers in this period attempted both to
understand imaginatively and empirically the workings of the
natural world, and shows that a discrete separation between such
discourses and spheres is untenable. The collection is designed
around four main themes-'Philosophy, Thought and Natural
Knowledge', 'Religion, Politics and the Natural World', 'Gender,
Sexuality and Scientific Thought' and 'New Worlds and New
Philosophies.' Within these themes, the contributors focus on the
contests between different ways of seeing and understanding the
natural world in a wide range of writings from the period: in
poetry and art, in political texts, in descriptions of real and
imagined colonial landscapes, as well as in more obviously
'scientific' documents.
This collection brings together essays examining the international
influence of queens, other female rulers, and their representatives
from 1450 through 1700, an era of expanding colonial activity and
sea trade. As Europe rose in prominence geopolitically, a number of
important women-such as Queen Elizabeth I of England, Catherine de
Medici, Caterina Cornaro of Cyprus, and Isabel Clara Eugenia of
Austria-exerted influence over foreign affairs. Traditionally
male-dominated spheres such as trade, colonization, warfare, and
espionage were, sometimes for the first time, under the control of
powerful women. This interdisciplinary volume examines how they
navigated these activities, and how they are represented in
literature. By highlighting the links between female power and
foreign affairs, Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern
Europe contributes to a fuller understanding of early modern
queenship.
This book provides an insight to the cultural work involved in
violence at sea in this period of maritime history. It is the first
to consider how 'piracy' and representations of 'pirates' both
shape and were shaped by political, social and religious debates,
showing how attitudes to 'piracy' and violence at sea were debated
between 1550 and 1650.
This inter-disciplinary study is the first to consider how
representations of pirates addressed both national political issues
and the agenda of particular interest groups. Looking at a variety
of well-known and neglected figures and texts, as well as canonical
ones, it shows how attitudes to piracy and privateering were
debated and contested between 1550 and 1650. This collection of
broad-ranging essays by international figures offers a new
perspective on an early modern cultural phenomenon, and satisfies
the need for a scholarly, in-depth analysis of this important topic
in Renaissance history.
Britain's emergence as one of Europe's major maritime powers has
all too frequently been subsumed by nationalistic narratives that
focus on operations and technology. This volume, by contrast,
offers a daring new take on Britain's maritime past. It brings
together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the
manifold ways in which the sea shaped British history,
demonstrating the number of approaches that now have a stake in
defining the discipline of maritime history. The chapters analyse
the economic, social, and cultural contexts in which English
maritime endeavour existed, as well as discussing representations
of the sea. The contributors show how people from across the
British Isles increasingly engaged with the maritime world, whether
through their own lived experiences or through material culture.
The volume also includes essays that investigate encounters between
English voyagers and indigenous peoples in Africa, and the
intellectual foundations of imperial ambition.
This collection brings together essays examining the international
influence of queens, other female rulers, and their representatives
from 1450 through 1700, an era of expanding colonial activity and
sea trade. As Europe rose in prominence geopolitically, a number of
important women-such as Queen Elizabeth I of England, Catherine de
Medici, Caterina Cornaro of Cyprus, and Isabel Clara Eugenia of
Austria-exerted influence over foreign affairs. Traditionally
male-dominated spheres such as trade, colonization, warfare, and
espionage were, sometimes for the first time, under the control of
powerful women. This interdisciplinary volume examines how they
navigated these activities, and how they are represented in
literature. By highlighting the links between female power and
foreign affairs, Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern
Europe contributes to a fuller understanding of early modern
queenship.
This agenda-setting volume on travel and drama in early modern
England provides new insights into Renaissance stage practice,
performance history, and theatre's transnational exchanges. It
advances our understanding of theatre history, drama's generic
conventions, and what constitutes plays about travel at a time when
the professional theatre was rapidly developing and England was
attempting to announce its presence within a global economy. Recent
critical studies have shown that the reach of early modern travel
was global in scope, and its cultural consequences more important
than narratives that are dominated by the Atlantic world suggest.
This collection of essays by world-leading scholars redefines the
field by expanding the canon of recognized plays concerned with
travel. Re-assessing the parameters of the genre, the chapters
offer fresh perspectives on how these plays communicated with their
audiences and readers.
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