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In the following essay, Elliott considers the impact of the New World on European thought during the Renaissance, and suggests that "tradition, experience, and expectation were the determinants...
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In the following essay, Adams discusses the treatment of the theme of the New World in several literary genres during the Renaissance.
There is great danger in talking about the "Renaissance,&#...
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In the following essay, Jones examines the opposing idealized and terrifying visions of the New World that characterized Renaissance thought.
The concept that the New World is the peculiar abode of fe...
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In the following excerpt, Elliott discusses the debate surrounding exploration and colonization of America during the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, which is the subject of Antonello Gerbi'...
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In the following essay—a version of which was originally presented at Oxford University and the University of Chicago in 1988—Greenblatt examines descrip tions by several explorers of Eu...
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Critical Essay by J. H. Elliott
