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18 Richard Hakluyt
Get accessNandini Das is Professor of Renaissance Literature at the School of English, University of Liverpool. She has written on a range of subjects, from Renaissance prose fiction and cross-cultural encounters, to the development of early eighteenth-century Orientalism. Her recent publications include Robert Greene's Planetomachia (Ashgate, 2007) and Renaissance Romance: The Transformation of English Prose Fiction, 1570–1620 (Ashgate, 2011), along with essays on Richard Hakluyt and early modern travel. Das is volume editor of ‘Elizabethan Levant Trade and South Asia’ in the forthcoming complete edition of Richard Hakluyt's The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (1598–1600), ed. Daniel Carey and Claire Jowitt (Oxford University Press) and is currently working on a project on Renaissance travel and cultural memory.
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Published:01 August 2013
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Abstract
This article examines the work of Richard Hakluyt, the most famous armchair traveller in early modern England. It demonstrates the extensive interaction between travel writing and prose fiction, with each type of writing borrowing style and content from the other so that voyage narratives were often imagined in terms of chivalric romance and heroic tales, narrated as mercantile quests for survival and profit as much as glory and honour. Hakluyt's Principal Navigations is the most significant collection of travel literature ever to be published in English. First printed in 1589 and running to over 1,760,000 words in three folio volumes by the time the second edition is printed in 1598𠀓1600, it is also one of the largest collections of Renaissance English prose, intimately connected with both its predecessors and successors in the field of travel writing.
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