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Author Dimmock, Matthew, author

Title Writing Tudor exploration : Richard Eden and West Africa / Matthew Dimmock
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource
Series Elements in travel writing 2632-7082
Cambridge elements. Elements in travel writing.
Contents Introduction : writing Tudor exploration -- Paper : Eden's Decades -- Gold : The first Guinea voyage -- Ivory : the second Guinea voyage
Summary "Richard Eden's Decades (1555) has long been recognised as a landmark in the translation and circulation of information concerning the Americas in England. What is often overlooked in Eden's book is the presence of the first two Tudor voyage accounts to have been committed to print, assembled in haste and added late in the printing process. Both concern English commercial ventures to the West African coast, undertaken despite vehement Portuguese protests and in the midst of the profound alteration of the Marian succession. Both are complex, contradictory, and innovative experiments in generic form and content. Writing Tudor Exploration closely examines Eden's assembly and framing of these accounts, engaging with issues of material culture, travel writing, new knowledge, race, and the negotiation of political and religious change. In the process it repositions West Africa and Eden at the heart of a lost history of early English expansionism"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576
Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526. De orbe novo. English
Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576.
SUBJECT De orbe novo (Anghiera, Pietro Martire d') fast (OCoLC)fst01375682
Subject Travel writing -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
Discoveries in geography -- British.
Travel writing.
Africa, West -- Discovery and exploration -- British
Great Britain -- History, Naval -- Tudors, 1485-1603
Great Britain.
West Africa.
Genre/Form History.
Naval history.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022034766
ISBN 9781009047005
1009047000
Other Titles Richard Eden and West Africa