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Inventing Virginia : Sir Walter Raleigh and the rhetoric of colonization, 1584-1590 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moran, Michael G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, [2007]
Series:Early American literature and culture through the American renaissance ; 7.
Subjects:
Virginia > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Sources.
Virginia > Discovery and exploration > English > Sources.
Virginia > Description and travel > Sources.
Outer Banks (N.C.) > Description and travel > Sources.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > History > Sources.
Great Britain > Commerce > Virginia > History > 16th century > Sources.
Raleigh, Walter, > Sir, > 1552?-1618.
English language > Rhetoric.
English language > Discourse analysis.
Written communication > Virginia > History > 16th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Virginia as a garden : Arthur Barlowe's "first voyage made to the coastes of America" (1584)
  • Explaining a failure : Ralph Lane's 1586 Account as apologia
  • Thomas Hariot's A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia and the possibilities of settlement
  • The English gaze, Virginia, and the Roanoke Indians : John White as ethnographic illustrator
  • Renaissance surveying techniques and the 1590 Hariot-White-de Bry maps of Virginia
  • John White and the Renaissance exploration report as personal apologia
  • Conclusion.