Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers The Diligent Writers of Early America

Name: Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers The Diligent Writers of Early America
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ISBN: 9780226260723

ISBN-10: 0226260720

ISBN-13: 9780226260723

Edition: 1979

Authors: Wayne Franklin

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"Send those on land that will show themselves diligent writers." So urged the "sailing instructions" prepared for explorer Henry Hudson. With distinctive command of the primary texts created by such "diligent writers" as Columbus, William Bradford, and Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin describes how the New World was created from their new words. The long verbal discovery of America, he asserts, entailed both advance and retreat, sudden insights and blind insistence on old ways of seeing. The discoverers, explorers, and settlers depicted America in words—or via maps, tables, and landscape views—as a complex spatial and political entity, a place where ancient formula and current fact were…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/30/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 266
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Wayne Franklin is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.



List of Plates


Acknowledgments


Prologue


Introduction: Language and Event in New World History



Discovery Narrative An Adventure of the Eye Alone



Exploratory Narrative Many Goodly Tokens



Settlement Narrative Like an Ancient Mother


Conclusion


Epilogue: A Wilderness of Books


Notes


Index