‘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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Main Author: Laurence Machet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Latvia Press 2016-05-01
Series:Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture
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Online Access:https://journal.lu.lv/bjellc/article/view/353