Claire Jowitt: 3 books
The Culture of Piracy, 1580–1630
English Literature and Seaborne Crime
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Listening to what she terms 'unruly pirate voices' in early modern English literature, in this study Claire Jowitt offers an original and compelling analysis of the cultural meanings of 'piracy'. By examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and also the sometimes hard-to-distinguish privateer)...
by Claire Jowitt
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe is an interdisciplinary collection of 24 essays which brings together leading international scholarship on Hakluyt and his work. Best known as editor of The Principal Navigations (1589; expanded 1598-1600), Hakluyt was a key figure in promoting...
The Arts of 17th-Century Science
Representations of the Natural World in European and North American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Contemporary ideals of science representing disinterested and objective fields of investigation have their origins in the seventeenth century. However, 'new science' did not simply or uniformly replace earlier beliefs about the workings of the natural world, but entered into competition with them....