Criticism

"Elizabethan Explorers." The Church Quarterly Preview XXXIII, No. LXV (October, 1891): 216-35.

Offers a historical overview of the most influential exploration voyages and chronicles of the Elizabethan period.

Cressy, David. "Elizabethan America: 'God's Own Latitude?'" History Today, 36. (July 1986): 44-50.

Provides an overview of "what the English wanted from America during the first Elizabethan period, and what they achieved."

Edwards, Philip, ed. Last Voyages: Cavendish, Hudson, Ralegh: The Original Narratives. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988, 268 p.

Presents a modernized edition of The Last Voyage of Thomas Cavendish, 1591-1593, The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson, 1610-1611, and The Last Voyage of Sir Walter Ralegh, 1617-1618.

Ife, B. W. "Alexander in the New World." Renaissance and Modern Studies XXX. (1986): 35-44.

Examines language and narrative structure in several accounts of Spanish discovery and conquest in the New World.

Iglesia, Ramón. "Bernal Díaz del Castillo's Criticisms of the History of the Conquest of Mexico, by Franciso López de Gómara." The Hispanic American Historical Review XX, No. 4 (November 1940):535-50.

Argues that "the two pillars upon which rests the history of the Mexican conquest by the Spaniards" [the chronicles of Gómara and Díaz] are in fact "like sensitive thermometrical columns which vary continually" in response to the contemporary intellectual climate. Defends the relevance of Gómara's account of the Spanish conquest.

Parks, George Bruner. Richard Hakluyt and the English Voyages, edited by James A. Williamson. New York: American Geographical Society, 1928, 289 p.

Discusses England's experience of "the sudden expansion of the world" during the Renaissance.

Sanford, Charles L. The Quest for Paradise: Europe and the American Moral Imagination. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961, 282 p.

Explores the influence of the "Edenic myth" on the development of American culture from the early years of colonization through the twentieth century.

Stout, Harry S. "Word and Order in Colonial New England." In The Bible in America: Essays in Cultural History, edited by Nathan O, pp. 19-38. Hatch and Mark A. Noll. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Includes discussion of the Puritan movement in relation to New World settlement, and the application of "biblical doctrines to questions of a temporal and political nature" in America.

Wallace, Archer. "Religious Faith of Great Adventurers." In The Religious Faith of Great Men, pp. 3-15. Reprint. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, Inc., 1967.

Attempts "to record, rather than to interpret, the religious thinking" of explorers including Columbus, Drake, Raleigh, and Shackelton.