Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance 1545-1625
Andrew Hadfield
Price: £62.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-818480-5
Publication date: 17 December 1998
328 pages, 13 halftones, 234x156 mm
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| - 'scholarly and informed book ... Hadfield's book is an enterprising examination of the intricacies of political comment in Tudor and Stuart times, and he is adept in teasing out the significance of cautious multi-layered narrative.' - Philip Edwards, Times Literary Supplement
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| Description | | - * Explores representations of Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Far East in a wide-ranging and innovative study of English travel writing
- * Redresses the neglected area of Renaissance travel and colonialism
- * Utilizes postcolonial and other modern forms of theory in new ways and scenes
| | 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. |
Readership: Scholars and students of the English Renaissance, Shakespeare, cultural history, colonial literature, and the literatures of travel, empire, and social criticism.
| Contents |
Preface
Introduction: Changing Places in Renaissance Literature
Chapter One: How harmful be the errors of princes
: English Travellers in Europe, 1545-1620
Chapter Two: What is the Matter with you Christian Men?
: English Colonial Literature, 1555-1625
Chapter Three: The perfect glass of state
: English Fiction from William Baldwin to John Brady, 1553-1625
Chapter Four: All my travels history
: Reading the Locations of Renaissance Plays
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
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| Authors, editors,
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Andrew Hadfield, Professor in the Department of English, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
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