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  • 5 - Early Modern Travel Writing (2): English Travel Writing

  • from Part I - Travel Writing by Period
  • Edited by Nandini Das, University of Liverpool, Tim Youngs, Nottingham Trent University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Travel Writing
    Published online:
    11 January 2019
    Print publication:
    24 January 2019, pp 77-92
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The Cambridge History of Travel Writing
  • Edited by Nandini Das, Tim Youngs
  • Published online:
    11 January 2019
    Print publication:
    24 January 2019
  • Bringing together original contributions from scholars around the world, this volume traces the history of travel writing from antiquity to the Internet age. It examines travel texts of several national or linguistic traditions, introducing readers to the global contexts of the genre. From wilderness to the urban, from Nigeria to the polar regions, from mountains to rivers and the desert, this book explores some of the key places and physical features represented in travel writing. Chapters also consider the employment in travel writing of the diary, the letter, visual images, maps and poetry, as well as the relationship of travel writing to fiction, science, translation and tourism. Gender-based and ecocritical approaches are among those surveyed. Together, the thirty-seven chapters here underline the richness and complexity of this genre.

  • Encounter as Process: England and Japan in the Late Sixteenth Century

  • Nandini Das
  • Journal:
    Renaissance Quarterly / Volume 69 / Issue 4 / Winter 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    20 November 2018, pp. 1343-1368
    Print publication:
    Winter 2016

  • Taking a cue from a fleeting reference to Japan in a remarkably idiosyncratic sixteenth-century language manual, this essay explores the knowledge about Japan that circulated in England before first formal contact took place between the two nations in 1613–14. The cumulative record of fleeting intersections and near-forgotten moments when the two nations came into each other’s circuit demands a reassessment of current conceptualizations of the travel encounter, juxtaposing the traditional view of encounter as a singular significant event, with one that acknowledges the encounter’s rootedness in long-running processes of knowledge making and circulation.

Medieval into Renaissance
  • Essays for Helen Cooper
  • With contributions by Andrew King , Matthew Woodcock , Joyce Boro , Alexandra Gillespie , Mary C. Flannery , James Wade , Nandini Das , Megan G. Leitch , Aisling Byrne , Robert Maslen , Jason Powell and Helen Vincent
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 July 2016
    Print publication:
    19 May 2016
  • The borderline between the periods commonly termed "medieval" and "Renaissance", or "medieval" and "early modern", is one of the most hotly, energetically and productively contested faultlines in literary history studies. The essays presented in this volume both build upon and respond to the work of Professor Helen Cooper, a scholar who has long been committed to exploring the complex connectionsand interactions between medieval and Renaissance literature. The contributors re-examine a range of ideas, authors and genres addressed in her work, including pastoral, chivalric romance, early English drama, and the writings of Chaucer, Langland, Spenser and Shakespeare. As a whole, the volume aims to stimulate active debates on the ways in which Renaissance writers used, adapted, and remembered aspects of the medieval.

    Andrew King is Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at University College, Cork; Matthew Woodcock is Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the University of East Anglia.

    Contributors: Joyce Boro, Aisling Byrne, Nandini Das, Mary C. Flannery, Alexandra Gillespie, Andrew King, Megan G. Leitch, R.W. Maslen, Jason Powell,Helen Vincent, James Wade, Matthew Woodcock

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