Brennan, MG orcid.org/0000-0001-6310-9722 (2019) Editorial Matters. In: Pettinger, A and Youngs, T, (eds.) The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing. Routledge , Abingdon, UK ISBN 9781472417923
Abstract
This essay examines some of the major challenges facing editors of early-modern travel texts. They may be drawn into four broad categories: genre, authorship, textual history and readership. How these various elements are interpreted and drawn together often defines how a modern edition, with its introduction, annotations and other scholarly apparatus, is presented to its diverse readership. Two specific examples – Richard Hakluyt’s accounts of the Spanish Armada (1588) and the Cadiz voyage (1596) in his Principal Navigations (1598–1600) – are analysed in detail to explore how issues of textual ownership, censorship, translation, adaptation and early-modern editorial practices may impinge upon the modern editor’s decisions.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 selection and editorial matter, Alasdair Pettinger and Tim Youngs; individual chapters, the contributors. This is an author produced version of a book chapter published in The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 Aug 2017 08:58 |
Last Modified: | 30 Dec 2020 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Identification Number: | 10.4324/9781315613710 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:120551 |