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Inventing Virginia : Sir Walter Raleigh and the rhetoric of colonization, 1584-1590
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- Creator
- Michael G. Moran
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Peter Lang, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xv, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780820486949, 0820486949, 1453906797, 9781453906798
- OCLC
- ocn646523499, ocm71800497
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-253) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
- English language -- Rhetoric.
- English language -- Discourse analysis.
- Written communication -- Virginia -- History -- 16th century.
- 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.