This book investigates the operations of memory over time through three case studies: the famous anthology by Richard Hakluyt memorializing the feats of Elizabethan voyagers, the eccentric autobiography of Captain John Smith, and the little known history of early modern Newfoundland.

Autorentext
MARY C. FULLER is Associate Professor of Literature at the Massachusettts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.

Inhalt
English Worthies: the Age of Expansion Remembered Sea-Dogs: Frobisher, Grenville, and the Definition of National Selves Three Turks Heads: Reading the True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captain John Smith (1630) Rebellious Fish: Newfoundland Unremembered