INQ-277 | English Images of the Americas, 1500-1620

Topic Description:

An examination of the images of the "new world" that reached England after the voyages of Columbus, Vespucci, and subsequent explorers. With the news of these voyages, these images found their way into the imaginative literature, art, and cartography of the English-speaking world. This course examines three clusters of such images: the early voyages up to Thomas More’s Utopia; the written accounts and visual representations of the exploration, discovery and attempted colonization of the first English colony in America, the “lost colony” of Roanoke; the early Virginia settlement as background to Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The course includes a field trip to the Roanoke site on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Course Types Offered: Field Trip

Topic Approved: April 2004