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This essay discusses the use of literature, travel, and colonial writing in the English Renaissance. Writers often used their works to reflect on the state of contemporary English politics, and readers made close connections between the two. However, assumptions about the past can be difficult to make.
What was the purpose of representing foreign lands for writers in the English Renaissance? This innovative and wide-ranging study argues that writers often used their works as vehicles to reflect on the state of contemporary English politics. It examines fictional and non-fictional writings, illustrating how early modern readers made close connections between the two, and the problems involved in assuming that we can make sense of the past with the categories available to us.
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