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Title: Travel Writing
Description: This is a travel writing lecture that was held in my 3rd year at uni. It gives notes on the early modern era of travel writing, including notes on Coyrat. They're not the best notes but they are useful which is why I'm offering so little for it.

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Travel  Writing:  A  Historical  Survey    
 
2
...
 
 
Creating  monsters  and  marvels:  the  reader’s  response  to  the  new
...
 Rivalry  with  
Catholic  Spain
...
 
Cultures  of  greater  antiquity/power/sophistication  than  Britain
...
 
• Experienced  the  ‘Renaissance’  belatedly    
• Christian,  and  specifically,  Protestant  –  at  odds  with  Catholic  southern  
Europe  
Venice:  
 
• An  independent  city-­‐state  (Italy  not  unified  until  1870)  
• Major  power  in  the  med  from  the  13th  to  16th  century  –  publicity  
purposes,  made  a  war  ship  in  a  day  
• For  Coryat  Venice  =  ‘the  fairest  lady,  yea  ‘the  richest  paragon  and  queene  
of  christendome’    
• Italy  as  site  of  high  culture  and  sophistication    
 
 


Title: Travel Writing
Description: This is a travel writing lecture that was held in my 3rd year at uni. It gives notes on the early modern era of travel writing, including notes on Coyrat. They're not the best notes but they are useful which is why I'm offering so little for it.