Title: Cosmographical glasses : geographic discourse, gender, and Elizabethan fiction /
Authors: Relihan, Constance Caroline.
Publisher: Kent State University Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: English fiction History and criticism; Geographical discoveries in literature.; Women and literature England History; Pastoral fiction, English History and criticism.; Geography in literature.; Ethnicity in literature.; Sex role in literature.; America In literature.
Abstract: "In Cosmographical Glasses Constance Relihan examines the ways in which sixteenth-century English texts - traveler's reports, ethnographic studies, and geographic guides - provide the foundation for how fictional prose of the period envisions the locations in which its tales are set. Relihan suggests that this nonfictional discourse becomes central to how the fictional prose of the period imagines cultural identity, fictional purpose, and gender identity."--Jacket.
Contents: The fiction of ethnography/the ethnography of fiction -- The gendered and geographic "glasses" of the English novella -- "Full works to excellent geographers" -- Trapalonia, Machilenta, and the uses of fictional "glasses" -- The ethnographic function of Latin.