'Inventing Virginia: Sir Walter Raleigh and the Rhetoric of Colonization, 1584-1590 (Early American Literature and Culture Through the American Renaissance)' by Michael G. Moran


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Books : Inventing Virginia: Sir Walter Raleigh and the Rhetoric of Colonization, 1584-1590 (Early American Literature and Culture Through the American Renaissance)

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by: Michael G. Moran See Larger Image Amazon.com's Price: $73.95 Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 975.502 EAN: 9780820486949 ISBN: 0820486949 Label: Peter Lang Publishing Manufacturer: Peter Lang Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 261 Publication Date: 2006-11 Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Sales Rank: 2548276 Studio: Peter Lang Publishing Editorial Review: Book Description: In 1584 Walter Raleigh received a patent from Queen Elizabeth to settle an English colony on Roanoke Island, on the Outer Banks of present-day North Carolina, soon to be named Virginia. Within the next few years, he sent a reconnaissance voyage and two actual colonies (both of which failed) to explore and settle the region. To support his colonization efforts, Raleigh assembled a group of communication experts who wrote reports and produced ethnographic drawings of the people and maps of the region to interest potential investors and colonists in the project. Inventing Virginia is the first book to thoroughly explore the communication strategies that Raleigh’s circle developed and applied in Virginia. This book will make important contributions to several fields, including technical and commercial communication, early American literature, Renaissance literature (especially prose studies), and rhetorical theory and practice.

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