“Others sat murmuring and idle upon the deck”: The Poetics of English Voyage Narratives from the South Sea c. 1700

The many English accounts of piracy, privateering and exploration in the South Sea that were produced around 1700 share a language of sea travel. They do so because the narratives themselves were taken to sea and read by other seafarers. Hence, the books themselves travelled and were written with th...

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Main Author: Johan HEINSEN
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2014-07-01
Series:E-REA
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/erea/3767