The Image of America in Montaigne, Spenser and Shakespeare. Renaissance Ethnography and Literary Reflection.

Hamlin, William M.:

ISBN 10: 0312125062 / ISBN 13: 9780312125066

Published by New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995

About this Item

xx.; 234 S. Buch in guter Erhaltung, Einband sauber und unbestoßen, Seiten hell und sauber, oberes Kapital etwas bestoßen, Schutzumschlag mit kl. Einrissen, Sprache: Englisch 0 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Image of America in Montaigne, Spenser and Shakespeare. Renaissance Ethnography and Literary Reflection.
• Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312125062
• ISBN 13: 9780312125066
• Binding: 8° , O.Pb.; mit Schutzumschlag
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literaturwissenschaft

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Synopsis

Traces the evolution of Renaissance ideas of savagery and civility during the 16th and early 17th centuries by examining selected works and passages of three major writers. Finds that in the interplay of ethnographic reporting and literary representation, the two human states became considered very different but equal. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About the Author

William M. Hamlin is Assistant Professor of English at Idaho State University.