SOURCE: "The Work of Gender in the Discourse of Discovery," in Representations, No. 33, Winter, 1991, pp. 1–41.
In the following essay, Montrose examines the cultural background of Raleigh's The Discoverie of Guiana (1596), focusing specifically on the presence of such opposing values in the work as European and Indian, English and Spanish, culture and nature, and male and female.
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