Any Good Reading? The Changing Reception of Early Modern Travel Writing
Journal article
Authors | Day, M. |
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Abstract | Although the importance of the two editions of Richard Hakluyt’s Principal(l) Navigations (1589, 1598-1600) has long been recognised, there has been relatively little study of the reception of the work. This article provides an examination over the long durée of the reception of these volumes. It charts their use as providing practical information for travellers, explorers and colonists in the early modern period and as repositories of evidence for colonial claims in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. While leisure reading has been an ongoing element of the reception of the works, this seems to have experienced a resurgence following the reissue of the volumes at the start of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Particularly noticeable are the publication of excerpts in an effort to create specific historical narratives and the selections of texts targeted at children in this later period. Overall, the paper demonstrates the richness and breadth of responses to Hakluyt’s publications and the changing emphasis of its appeal. |
Keywords | Travel Writing; Early Modern; reception history; North-West Passage; colonialism; antiquarianism |
Year | 2022 |
Journal | Journal of the Hakluyt Society |
Journal citation | April 2022, pp. 1-18 |
Publisher | Hakluyt Society |
ISSN | ISSN 2051-543X |
Web address (URL) | https://www.hakluyt.com/journal-of-the-hakluyt-society/ |
https://www.hakluyt.com/downloadable_files/Journal/Day_Hakluyt.pdf | |
https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/707522/ | |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | Apr 2022 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 31 Jul 2023 |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9zy3q/any-good-reading-the-changing-reception-of-early-modern-travel-writing
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