Cosmographical glasses
Subtitle: geographic discourse, gender, and Elizabethan fiction
By: Constance C. Relihan.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Geographical discoveries in literature; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century; Pastoral fiction, English -- History and criticism; Geography in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Sex role in literature; America -- In literature
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-143) and index.
Table of contents: title: The fiction of ethnography/the ethnography of fiction --; title: The gendered and geographic "glasses" of the English novella --; title: "Full works to excellent geographers" --; title: Trapalonia, Machilenta, and the uses of fictional "glasses" --; title: The ethnographic function of Latin.