Bringing the World to Early Modern Europe
Travel Accounts and Their Audiences
Biographical note
Peter C. Mancall, Ph.D. (1986) in History, Harvard University, is Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Southern California and the Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. His books include Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology (Oxford, 2006) and Hakluyt’s Promise (Yale, 2007).
Readership
This collection will appeal to scholars and general readers with an interest in travel, the Renaissance, the development of print culture, and humanism.
Table of contents
Introduction: What Fynes Moryson Knew, Peter C. Mancall
Making Something of It: Questions of Value in the Early English Travel Collection, Mary C. Fuller
Reading Travels in the Culture of Curiosity: Thévenot’s Collection of Voyages, Nicholas Dew
The Construction of an Authoritative Text: Peter Kolb’s Description of the Khoikhoi at the Cape of Good Hope in the Eighteenth Century, Anne Good
Africans in the Quaker Image: Anthony Benezet, African Travel Narratives, and Revolutionary-Era Antislavery, Jonathan D. Sassi
Travel Writing and Humanistic Culture: A Blunted Impact?, Joan-Pau Rubiés
Making Something of It: Questions of Value in the Early English Travel Collection, Mary C. Fuller
Reading Travels in the Culture of Curiosity: Thévenot’s Collection of Voyages, Nicholas Dew
The Construction of an Authoritative Text: Peter Kolb’s Description of the Khoikhoi at the Cape of Good Hope in the Eighteenth Century, Anne Good
Africans in the Quaker Image: Anthony Benezet, African Travel Narratives, and Revolutionary-Era Antislavery, Jonathan D. Sassi
Travel Writing and Humanistic Culture: A Blunted Impact?, Joan-Pau Rubiés
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