The language of discovery, exploration and settlement / edited by Nicholas Brownlees.
"This volume offers the first fully-focused study on the language and discourse employed in historical accounts of discovery, exploration and settlement, stretching from the 16th to 19th centuries, and covering areas as far afield as the Americas, Africa, India, Australasia and the Arctic. In t...
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- British colonial ideology in the language of pamphlets on Virginia (1584-1624) / Elisabetta Cecconi
- No news from America in Spanish gazettes : censorship and news networks dependency in early modern Spanish journalism / Carmen Espejo-Cala
- Lewis and Clark in their own words : description, evaluation, and conquest / Marina Dossena
- Conquest, knowledge, and representation : how the western expansion changed American culture / Bruno Cartosio
- Popular pictures of imperialism: the illustrated London news in 1842 / Martin Conboy
- Reporting David Livingstone's travels to a popular readership / Nicholas Brownlees
- Correspondence as a form of knowledge dissemination : the case of Lucie, Lady Duff Gordon writing home from South Africa / Gabriella Del Lungo Camicotti
- An English lady, Lucie Duff Gordon, conveying knowledge about Egypt by writing letters home / Francesca Ditifeci
- Victorian women discovering and representing India in their travel journals / Christina Samson
- In search of John Franklin : the 'Arctic adventures' of Lady Franklin / Nicoletta Brazzelli
- Vernacular reports from the colonies : letters back home by Irish emigrants / Raymond Hickey
- The language of "messy" encounters : Matthew Flinder's depictions of Australian Aborigines (1801-1803) / Polina Shvanyukova
- New Holland and the islands of the south seas. The new discoveries as seen in late eighteenth-century geography schoolbooks for children / Giulia Rovelli
- Travel discourse in eighteenth-century British dictionaries : language of discovery, exploration, and settlement / Linda C. Mitchell
- The mercantile discovery of the world : 'geographical commodities' in 18th-century dictionaries of trade and commerce / Elisabetta Lonati.