Thesis
Gifted travellers: rhetorical invention in seventeenth-century English travel writing
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This thesis argues that seventeenth-century English travellers drew on the precepts of rhetorical invention to understand and describe their experiences on the road. It focusses on the writings of Thomas Coryate, Henry Blount, William Scott, John Cartwright, and Edward Terry, all of whom travelled to the ‘Old World’ (Africa, Europe, and Asia, as opposed to the ‘New World’ of the Americas) for diplomatic, mercantile, and religious purposes in the period before 1660. It reconstructs aspects ...
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+ Lewis, R
Department:
Princeton University
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Supervisor
+ Murphy, K
Department:
University of Oxford
Role:
Supervisor
Funding
The Drapers' Company
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Rhodes Trust
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
- Language:
- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2019-04-30
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- Copyright holder:
- Din-Kariuki, N
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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