Critical Issues Editing Exploration Text / / ed. by Germaine Warkentin.

The papers in this collection deal with a cultural problem central to the study of the history of exploration: the editing and transmission of the texts in which explorers relate their experiences. The papers chart the transformation of the study of exploration writing from the genres of national ep...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1995
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (166 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Tractable Texts: Modern Editing and the Columbian Writings
  • Editing Italian Sources for the History of Exploration
  • The Editing of Richard Hakluyt's "Discourse of Western Planting"
  • The Metamorphosis of Travellers into Authors: The Case of Paul Kane
  • The Great Publication Societies
  • A Double Tradition: Editing Book Twelve of the Florentine Codex
  • Members of the Conference
  • Backmatter