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The papers in this collection deal with a cultural problem central to the study of the history of exploration: the editing and transmission of the texts in which explorers relate their experiences. The papers chart the transformation of the study of exploration writing from the genres of national epic and scientific reportage to the genre of cultural analysis. As well, they reflect on ongoing changes in our ideas about editorial procedures, literary genres, and cultural appropriation.
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Comprises six papers given at the November, 1992 conference, all dealing with the editing and transmission of explorers' texts. Essays discuss the Columbian writings; editing Italian sources for the history of exploration; the editing of Richard Hakluyt's "Discourse of Western Planting"; Paul Kane's metamorphosis from traveller into author; the gre
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Critical Issues in Editing Exploration Texts: Papers Given at the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference on Editorial Problems University of Toronto, 6-7 November 1992
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