Inventing Virginia [electronic resource] : Sir Walter Raleigh and the rhetoric of colonization, 1584-1590 / Michael G. Moran.
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TextSeries: Early American literature and culture through the American renaissance ; 7.Publication details: New York : P. Lang, c2007.Description: xv, 261 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): - 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 -- British -- 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
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
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