Greece in Early English Travel Writing, 1596–1682

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Efterpi Mitsi
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Early English

scholarly journals The Greek Voyage

Perceptions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Panagiotis Tzumakaris
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Greek Life ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
Travel Writers ◽  
Early English ◽  
Intensive Course ◽  
Classical Knowledge ◽  
Of Greece

During the spring semester of 2018, I took History 4497, a writing intensive course with an emphasis on European travel writing. My research focused on English travel writers of the late 16th and early 17th centuries voyaging to Greece. In my analysis, I examine the interactions early English travel writers experienced with the peoples of Greece. These interactions not only allow for an interesting first-hand insight of Greek life but provide reflections of the authors and their culture. Major themes discussed in my analysis include the anti-Greek bias, civilization versus barbarism, and non-elitist perception. I came to the conclusion that while formally-educated English travel writers’ perceptions of Greece were influenced greatly by the negative biases of their teachings, Thomas Dallam, an English organ-builder with no classical knowledge nor formal education, experienced his Greek voyage with a radically different perspective.

Making something of it: Questions of value in the early English travel collection

2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Early English ◽  
Richard Hakluyt

AbstractIn the second half of the sixteenth century, experiences and narratives of English travel to distant places first began to matter enough to be collected and published. Tracing early accounts of West Africa and Muscovy through the several collections of Richard Eden (1553, 1555) and Richard Hakluyt (1589, 1600) allows for comparison of how different editors handled the same materials at different moments. The evidence suggests that both editors differentiated between the African and Russian materials according to perceptions of these materials' value, or meaning, for their own collecting and publishing projects. Looking at how this was so, and considering why it was so, provides a closer and more detailed look at how travel writing acquired value in the context of print; it also offers an an approach to the larger question of how Englishmen "read" the places and cultures they encountered, actually or virtually, outside of Europe.

scholarly journals Efterpi Mitsi, Greece in Early English Travel Writing, 1596–1682

HISTOREIN ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Patrick Alan Sell
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Early English

Review of Efterpi Mitsi. Greece in Early English Travel Writing, 1596–1682. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 206 pp.

Greece in Early English Travel Writing, 1596–1682

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-118
Author(s):  
Samuel Pyeatt Menefee
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Early English

Book Reviews

Journeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-121
Author(s):  
Amy Cox Hall ◽  
Sergio González Varela ◽  
Jessica S.R. Robinson ◽  
Peter Weisensel ◽  
David Wills
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Transdisciplinary Research ◽  
Early English ◽  
And Training

Will Buckingham. Stealing with the Eyes: Imaginings and Incantations in Indonesia (London: HAUS Publishing, 2018), 230pp., ISBN 978-1-909-96142-5, $19.50 (paperback).Lauren Miller Griffith and Jonathan Marion. Apprenticeship Pilgrimage: Developing Expertise through Travel and Training (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018), xxx+171 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4985-2990-7, $90 (hardcover).Brooke A. Porter and Heike A. Schänzel, eds., Femininities in the Field: Tourism and Transdisciplinary Research (Bristol: Channel View Publications, 2018), xiv + 213 pp., ISBN-13: 978-1-84541-649-2, $39.95 (paperback).Edyta M. Bojanowska. A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada (Cambridge MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018), viii + 373 pp., ISBN: 978-0-674-97640-5, $35 (hardcover).Efterpi Mitsi. Greece in Early English Travel Writing, 1596–1682 (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), x + 206 pp., ISBN: 978-3-319-62611-6, £74.99 (hardcover).

Home, the Asylum, and the Workhouse in The Shadow of the Glen

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Little
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Hostile Environment ◽  
The Road ◽  
Institutional Space ◽  
Union Workhouse

This essay analyses J.M. Synge's construction of domestic and institutional space in his debut play The Shadow of the Glen. The Richmond Asylum and Rathdrum Union Workhouse, the two institutions of confinement which are mentioned in the play, are seen as playing important roles in constructing a threatening offstage space beyond the cottage walls. The essay reads Nora's departure from the home at the end of the play as an eviction into this hostile environment, thereby challenging the dominant interpretation of The Shadow as a woman's choice between her home and the road. By drawing on historical research and Synge's travel writing to delineate contemporary attitudes towards the asylum and the workhouse, the essay aims to provide a deeper understanding of the play's dynamics of place.

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