Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe

Claire Jowitt, Daniel Carey

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781409400172
• eBook ISBN: 9781317063094
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Early Modern History
• Index: History

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.

INDEX

All index entries shown here correspond to the page numbers within the printed edition only. Within this digital format these page numbers allow for cross referencing only.

References to footnotes consist of the page number followed by the letter ‘n’ followed by the number of the footnote, e.g. 8n27 refers to footnote no. 27 on page 8. References to figures in the text are shown with the page number in bold. References to plates are also shown in bold with the number of the plate preceded by the letters ‘Pl.’, e.g. P1.5.

Abbot, George 284

Acosta, José de 72

action vs contemplation 298

Adams, Clement 16, 238–41

Africa 32n21, 51, 59–60, 127

see also Benin; Congo; Guinea

Africans, attitudes towards 247, 248–9, 251–3

Alcassar, battle of (1578) 147–8

Alciato, Andrea 184

Aldersey, Laurence 220, 221

Alexander the Great 175, 201, 203

Alexander VI, Pope 174, 182, 260

Algonquians 92–3, 94, 95n28, 226

Allen, Ralph 120

Amadas, Philip 93

Americas, see Brazil; ‘Discourse of Western Planting’ (Richard Hakluyt); Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (Richard Hakluyt); Guiana; Roanoke colony; Trinidad; Virginia colony; West Indies; Wiapoco colony

Amerindians 115–16, 171–2, 207

see also Algonquians; Native Americans; Powhatans; Virginia Massacre/Uprising (1622)

Amity (ship) 17

Ancients 29, 31, 59, 60, 124

Anderson, Benedict 77, 174

Anderson, George 83

Andrews, Kenneth 155

Anghiera, Pietro Martire d’, see Peter Martyr Anglo-Dutch colonial conference (London, 1613) 18

Anglo-Dutch conflicts (17th century) 34, 269

Anglo-Ottoman Capitulations 224

Anglo-Spanish peace (1604) 116

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Series page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Plates and Figures
• Abbreviations
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Section I Hakluyt in Context
• Section II Early Modern Travel Collections
• Section III Editorial Practices
• Section IV Allegiances and Ideologies Politics, Religion, Nation
• Section V Hakluyt Rhetoric and Writing
• Coda
• Works Cited
• Index