Parr's investigation of the rash of travel exploits in the period leads to extensive research on the origins of the wager on travel and its role in the expansion of English tourism and trading activity. Greene Stephen Greenblatt View Under the mosquito net Article Jan 1967 New York Rev Books C. Renaissance Mad Voyages brings together literary and historical enquiry in order to address the implications of an interesting and neglected cultural trend. Renaissance Self-Fashioning from More to Shakespeare Article Sep 1983 Comp Lit Thomas M. Looking in detail at several of the best-documented exploits, Parr situates them in the ferment of such ventures during the period in question but also reaches back to explore their classical and mediaeval antecedents, and considers their role in creating a template for eccentric English adventure in later centuries. Anthony Parr shows that the mad voyage (as Rowley and others conceived it) had surprisingly deep and diverse roots in traditional travel practices, in courtly play and mercantile custom, and in literary culture. Hardcover with black cloth boards in dust. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Renaissance Mad Voyages: Experiments in Early Modern English Travel. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. This study is the first full length scholarly work to focus on the curious phenomenon of a madde voiages', as the writer William Rowley called them. Renaissance Mad Voyages: Experiments in Early Modern English Travel. A Review of Renaissance Mad Voyages: Experiments in Early Modern Travel by Anthony Parr. Renaissance Mad Voyages: Experiments in Early Modern English Travel. Renaissance Mad Voyages: Experiments in Early Modern English Travel - Kindle edition by Parr, Anthony. A vogue for travel a stunts' flourished in England between 1590 and the 1620s: playful imitations or burlesques of maritime enterprise and overland travel that collectively appear to be a response to particular innovations and developments in English culture.

Renaissance Mad Voyages by Anthony Parr