Seeing with Seventeenth-Century Eyes: Narratives of Voyage and Discovery Now this new World
was found, it was not made, Discussion of readings: The readings listed here provide one example of how a course could be constructed with EEBO-TCP documents as integral readings. The instructor can select specific chapters or sections of these texts (or assign the text in its entirety), download the desired material and create an electronic course-pack for students. Students can print out the readings if desired and can easily access these online materials throughout the term. The convenience offered by online accessibility, combined with the easy-to-read quality of the keyed text makes these works useful introductions to primary source materials for undergraduates, and offers the continual ability to compare the keyed text with the original page by clicking the appropriate link. The following sample
syllabus follows a theme of sight as it appears in narratives
of discovery in the seventeenth-century. Depending on the secondary
sources and the papers assigned this outline could be adapted
for a literature or history course, although the sample assignments
and exercises listed perhaps lend themselves more readily to literary
approaches in their present format. The readings illustrate the
range of materials available through EEBO-TCP. Paper
1 Unit 1: Travel, Empire and Nation
Real and imagined encounters with new worlds and people.
Brief and True Reports on Hariot's Virginia (exercise 1)
Seventeenth-century discoveries, descriptions, experiments and suspicions regarding alchemy, witchcraft, and science.
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