Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers : The Diligent Writers of Early America
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0226260720
ISBN-13
9780226260723
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 30th, 1989
Print length
266 Pages
Weight
454 grams
Dimensions
2.30 x 1.50 x 0.20 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
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"Send those on land that will show themselves diligent writers." So urged the "sailing instructions" prepared for explorer Henry Hudson. With distinctive command of the primary texts created by such "diligent writers" as Columbus, William Bradford, and Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin describes how the New World was created from their new words. The long verbal discovery of America, he asserts, entailed both advance and retreat, sudden insights and blind insistence on old ways of seeing. The discoverers, explorers, and settlers depicted America in words—or via maps, tables, and landscape views—as a complex spatial and political entity, a place where ancient formula and current fact were inevitably at odds.
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