Download or read book Caught between Worlds written by Joe Snader and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivity narrative has always been a literary genre associated with America. Joe Snader argues, however, that captivity narratives emerged much earlier in Britain, coinciding with European colonial expansion, the development of anthropology, and the rise of liberal political thought. Stories of Europeans held captive in the Middle East, America, Africa, and Southeast Asia appeared in the British press from the late sixteenth through the late eighteenth centuries, and captivity narratives were frequently featured during the early development of the novel. Until the mid-eighteenth century, British examples of the genre outpaced their American cousins in length, frequency of publication, attention to anthropological detail, and subjective complexity. Using both new and canonical texts, Snader shows that foreign captivity was a favorite topic in eighteenth-century Britain. An adaptable and expansive genre, these narratives used set plots and stereotypes originating in Mediterranean power struggles and relocated in a variety of settings, particularly eastern lands. The narratives' rhetorical strategies and cultural assumptions often grew out of centuries of religious strife and coincided with Europe's early modern military ascendancy. Caught Between Worlds presents a broad, rich, and flexible definition of the captivity narrative, placing the American strain in its proper place within the tradition as a whole. Snader, having assembled the first bibliography of British captivity narratives, analyzes both factual texts and a large body of fictional works, revealing the ways they helped define British identity and challenged Britons to rethink the place of their nation in the larger world.
Download or read book Collection of the Early Voyages Travels and Discoveries of the English Nation written by Richard Hakluyt and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Selection of Curious Rare and Early Voyages written by and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Principal Nauigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation Made by Sea Or Ouerland to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time Within the Compasse of These 1600 Yeres written by Richard Hakluyt and published by . This book was released on 1599 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation Complete written by Richard Hakluyt and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 5386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries written by Richard Hakluyt and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries... by Richard Hakluyt
Download or read book Introduction to Early Modern English written by Manfred Görlach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-07-26 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of Early Modern English considers writing and orthography, phonetics and phonology, syntax and the lexicon, and includes a valuable anthology of culturally oriented texts from a wide range of sources.
Download or read book The Bibliographer s Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare Curious and Useful Books Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland from the Invention of Printing written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collections and Notes written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The bibliographer s manual of English literature containing an account of rare curious and useful books publ in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Word Origins written by John Ayto and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 983 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The average contemporary English speaker knows 50,000 words. Yet stripped down to its origins, this apparently huge vocabulary is in reality much smaller, derived from Latin, French and the Germanic languages. It is estimated that every year, 800 neologisms are added to the English language: acronyms (nimby), blended words (motel), and those taken from foreign languages (savoir-faire). Laid out in an A-Z format with detailed cross references, and written in a style that is both authoritative and accessible, Word Origins is a valuable historical guide to the English language.
Download or read book The Hakluyt Handbook written by D.B. Quinn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hakluyt Handbook provides a reference guide to the works of the Reverend Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) and a critical evaluation of his achievements as a collector, editor, translator and author of travel literature. In Volume I, part one consists of a series of essays by specialists in the various field with which Hakluyt was concerned and attempts to evaluate his significance for historians, geographers and students of literature and society; part two comprises an analysis of the quality of his selections of material for his greatest collection The Principal Navigations...of the English Nation in a series of regional studies; and part three is a chronology of his life and writings expanded from that in G.B. Parks, Richard Hakluyt and the English Voyagers (1928). Parts four and five (in Volume II) analyse the contents and sources of Hakluyt's three major works Divers Voyages (1582), Principall Navigations (1589) and Principal Navigations (1598-1600), and provide detailed bibliographical material on the works with which Hakluyt was associated. A critical bibliography of secondary works and an analytical list of the publications of the Hakluyt Society, 1846-1973, complete the work. An index of books and articles referred to in the volumes is included. The Hakluyt Handbook has been under consideration by the Hakluyt Society for more than a decade and owes much to the late R.A. Skelton (1906-70). The editor Professor D.B. Quinn has had the generous co-operation of more than twenty members of the Society in its compilation. It is hoped that the volumes will not only have value to members of the Society and to many students of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, but that they will stimulate further research on Richard Hakluyt and a further refinement of our knowledge of Hakluyt's sources and bibliography. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 145) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first publis
Download or read book Handbook to the Popular Poetical and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Humphrey Gilbert and the Elizabethan Expedition written by Nathan J. Probasco and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the 1583 voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert to North America. This was England's first attempt at colonization beyond the British Isles, yet it has not been subject to thorough scholarly analysis for more than 70 years. An exhaustive examination of the voyage reveals the complexity and preparedness of this and similar early modern colonizing expeditions. Prominent Elizabethans assisted Gilbert by researching and investing in his expedition: the Printing Revolution was critical to their plans, as Gilbert’s supporters traveled throughout England with promotional literature proving England’s claim to North America. Gilbert’s experts used maps and charts to publicize and navigate, while his pilots experimented with new navigating tools and practices. Though he failed to establish a settlement, Gilbert created a blueprint for later Stuart colonizers who achieved his vision of a British Empire in the Western Hemisphere. This book clarifies the role of cartography, natural science, and promotional literature in Elizabethan colonization and elucidates the preparation stages of early modern colonizing voyages.
Download or read book The Library written by Sir John Young Walker MacAlister and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Principall Navigations Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation written by Richard Hakluyt and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
