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

Author/creator Moran, Michael G.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew York : Peter Lang, ©2007.
Descriptionxv, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Early American literature and culture through the American renaissance, 1085-4541 ; v. 7
Early American literature and culture through the American renaissance ; 7. ^A419684
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-253) and index.
LCCN 2006030570
ISBN0820486949 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780820486949 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Joyner NC Stacks F229 .M745 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold