Voyages in Print

In The Decades Leading Up To England''S First Permanent American Colony The Literature That Emerged Needed To Establish Certain Realities Against A Background Of Skepticism And It Also Had To Find Ways Of Theorizing The Enterprise. The Voyage Narratives Evolved Almost From The Outset As A Genre Concerned With Recuperating Failure--As Noble Strategic Even As A Form Of Success. Reception Of These Texts Since The Victorian Era Has Often Accepted Their Claims Of Heroism And Mastery; This Study Argues For A More Complicated Less Glorious History.