The years 1550 to 1630 were formative for the development of travel writing in English, just as they were formative for the foundation of the British Empire. Under Elizabeth I, Walter Raleigh led his famous expeditions to Roanoke and Guiana and in 1600, the first charter for the East India Company was issued. Under James VI and I, the Virginia and the Plymouth Company were founded and the plantations of Ulster and Munster, which had begun in the 16th century, continued to propagate the settlement of English-speaking Protestants from England and, following the Stuart reign, from Scotland in Ireland. The manifold material objectives of early modern travels to these and other parts of the world also included diplomatic purposes, religious reasons, educational motives as well as political and private commitments. As always when it comes to travel writing, these purposes interacted closely with the literary development of the genre. From the medieval period to the late 17th century, the genre saw the emergence of key generic formulas of travel writing, such as the emphasis on truth and scientific knowledge, the mostly autobiographical nature of the genre, the exploration of the self in relation to the other and the use of discursive strategies, including the emphasis on wonder or eyewitness accounts that helped to mediate the travellers’ knowledge to readers at home.
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37307/j.1866-5381.2023.02.29 |
Lizenz: | ESV-Lizenz |
ISSN: | 1866-5381 |
Ausgabe / Jahr: | 2 / 2023 |
Veröffentlicht: | 2023-11-23 |
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