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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.3 | The History Cooperative

Invested with Meaning: The Raleigh Circle in the New World. By Shannon Miller. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. viii, 231 pp. $37.50, isbn 0-8122-3442-1.)

In 1979 Wayne Franklin published his account of a group of explorer-authors, including Sir Walter Raleigh, that he described as "the diligent writers of Early America." In the two decades following Franklin's Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers, the New World has been revisited by a group of American professors of English literature who might be labeled "the diligent readers of early America." Shannon Miller's Invested with Meaning is a welcome addition to the work of Stephen J. Greenblatt, Richard Helgerson, Jeffrey Knapp, Mary C. Fuller, and others who have reread the texts generated by Europe's early encounter with the Americas. Such scholars have used their literary training as close readers to expose the active role played by rhetoric and representational strategies, pointing to the ways in which language was used not simply to give reports but to make sense of the New World and to justify its settlement. . . .

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