Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe is an interdisciplinary collection of 24 essays which brings together leading international scholarship on Hakluyt and his work. Best known as editor of The Principal Navigations (1589; expanded 1598-1600), Hakluyt was a key figure in promoting English colonial and commercial expansion in the early modern period. He also translated major European travel texts, championed English settlement in North America, and promoted global trade and exploration via a Northeast and Northwest Passage. His work spanned every area of English activity and aspiration, from Muscovy to America, from Africa to the Near East, and India to China and Japan, providing up-to-date information and establishing an ideological framework for English rivalries with Spain, Portugal, France, and the Netherlands. This volume resituates Hakluyt in the political, economic, and intellectual context of his time. The genre of the travel collection to which he contributed emerged from Continental humanist literary culture. Hakluyt adapted this tradition for nationalistic purposes by locating a purported history of 'English' enterprise that stretched as far back as he could go in recovering antiquarian records. The essays in this collection advance the study of Hakluyt's literary and historical resources, his international connections, and his rhetorical and editorial practice. The volume is divided into 5 sections: 'Hakluyt's Contexts'; 'Early Modern Travel Writing Collections'; 'Editorial Practice'; 'Allegiances and Ideologies: Politics, Religion, Nation'; and 'Hakluyt: Rhetoric and Writing'. The volume concludes with an account of the formation and ethos of the Hakluyt Society, founded in 1846, which has continued his project to edit travel accounts of trade, exploration, and adventure.
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Introduction; I: Hakluyt in Context; 1: Hakluyt's London; 2: From the ‘History of Travayle' to the History of Travel Collections; II: Early Modern Travel Collections; 3: A World Seen Through Another's Eyes; 4: Three Tales of the New World; 5: Hakluyt in France; 6: ‘Honour to our Nation' 1; 7: Richard Hakluyt and the Visual World of Early Modern Travel Narratives; III: Editorial Practices; 8: ‘[T]ouching the State of The Country of Guiana, and Whether It Were Fit to Be Planted By The English'; 9: Richard Hakluyt's Two Indias; 10: Forming The Captivity of Thomas Saunders; 11: Framing ‘The English Nation'; 12: ‘The Strange and Wonderfull Discoverie of Russia'; IV: Allegiances and Ideologies; 13: ‘We (Upon Peril of My Life) Shall Make the Spaniard Ridiculous To All Europe'; 14: Balance of Power and Freedom of the Seas; 15: Richard Hakluyt and the Demands of Pietas Patriae; 16: ‘To Deduce a Colonie'; 17: Hakluyt's Multiple Faiths; V: Hakluyt; 18: ‘His Dark Materials'; 19: ‘To Pot Straight Way we Goe'; 20: Hakluyt, Purchas, and the Romance of Virginia *; 21: ‘Accidentall Restraints' 1; 22: Hakluyt's Oceans; 23: Hakluyt's Legacy; Coda; 24: The Legacy of Richard Hakluyt
Daniel Carey is Professor of English in the School of Humanities at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland; Claire Jowitt is Professor of English at the University of Southampton, UK.
