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Settled Place, Contested Past: Reconciling George Percy’s “A Trewe Relacyon” with John Smith’s Generall Historie

Settled Place, Contested Past: Reconciling George Percy’s “A Trewe Relacyon” with John... FoRRest K. Le HMA n University of Delaware Settled Place, Contested Past Reconciling George Percy’s “A Trewe Relacyon” with John Smith’s Generall Historie John Smith’s Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (124) 6 purports to be a comprehensive record of the early history of the Jamestown colony, but Philip Barbour describes the Generall Historie as “John Smith’s Memoirs, his Apologia, and his Defense, rounded out with information from others bearing on what he considered his colo- nies” (Barbour, r Th ee Worlds , 68). 3 David Read concurs, describing it as “a profoundly unsettled work” and characterizing colonial literature as a generally unsettled genre: “e Th knowledge of the colonial world that Smith presents to us in his text,” Read tells us, “is shot through with radical un- certainties” (40). 3 One man who wrote in hopes of destabilizing Smith’s Generall Historie is George Percy (1580–12), 36 the eighth son of the eighth Earl of Northum - berland and the highest-ranking gentleman at Jamestown during his stay.1 Percy’s “A Trewe Relacyon” (15), 26 one of two extant records of his James - town experiences,2 challenges the authority of Smith’s Generall Historie: both texts directly witness events http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

Settled Place, Contested Past: Reconciling George Percy’s “A Trewe Relacyon” with John Smith’s Generall Historie

Lehman, Forrest K.
Early American Literature , Volume 42 (2) – Jul 19, 2007
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FoRRest K. Le HMA n University of Delaware Settled Place, Contested Past Reconciling George Percy’s “A Trewe Relacyon” with John Smith’s Generall Historie John Smith’s Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (124) 6 purports to be a comprehensive record of the early history of the Jamestown colony, but Philip Barbour describes the Generall Historie as “John Smith’s Memoirs, his Apologia, and his Defense, rounded out with information from others bearing on what he considered his colo- nies” (Barbour, r Th ee Worlds , 68). 3 David Read concurs, describing it as “a profoundly unsettled work” and characterizing colonial literature as a generally unsettled genre: “e Th knowledge of the colonial world that Smith presents to us in his text,” Read tells us, “is shot through with radical un- certainties” (40). 3 One man who wrote in hopes of destabilizing Smith’s Generall Historie is George Percy (1580–12), 36 the eighth son of the eighth Earl of Northum - berland and the highest-ranking gentleman at Jamestown during his stay.1 Percy’s “A Trewe Relacyon” (15), 26 one of two extant records of his James - town experiences,2 challenges the authority of Smith’s Generall Historie: both texts directly witness events

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Published: Jul 19, 2007

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