‘A Strict Journal of All the Passages’: John Lawson’s "New Voyage to Carolina" and the Importance of Mobility
In colonial British America ‘travel writing’ found its way into many different literary genres: religious tracts, scientific accounts, and political or promotional writings, often written to make settlement attractive. Travel writing was also often devoted to mapping and describing landscapes for fu...
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Language: | English |
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University of Latvia Press
2016-05-01
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Series: | Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture |
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Online Access: | https://journal.lu.lv/bjellc/article/view/353 |