Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613

Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613, shows how rhetorical invention, elocution and ethos combined to create plausible representations by generating intellectual and emotional significances which, meaningful in consensual terms, were ''consensually'' true. However, some traveller-writers betrayed an unease with such representation, rooted as it was in a metaphorical epistemolog...