Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance, 1545-1625

by Andrew Hadfield

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199233659
• ISBN13: 9780199233656
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"