Inventing Virginia

Moran, Michael G.

Inventing Virginia Sir Walter Raleigh and the rhetoric of colonization, 1584-1590 / [electronic resource] : Michael G. Moran. - New York : P. Lang, c2007. - xv, 261 p. : ill., maps. - Early American literature and culture through the American renaissance, v. 7 1085-4541 ; . - Early American literature and culture through the American renaissance ; 7. .

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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Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.


English language--Rhetoric.
English language--Discourse analysis.
Written communication--History--Virginia--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--History--America--Sources.
Great Britain--Commerce--History--Virginia--16th century--Sources.


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