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Brasil Island, better known as Hy Brasil, is a phantom island. In the fourteenth century Mediterranean mapmakers marked it on nautical charts to the west of Ireland, and its continued presence on maps over the next six hundred years inspired enterprising seafarers to sail across the Atlantic in search of it. Writers, too, fell for its lure. While English writers envisioned the island as a place of commercial and colonial interest, artists and poets in Ireland fashioned it into a fairyland of Celtic lore. This pioneering study first traces the cartographic history of Brasil Island and examines its impact on English maritime exploration and literature. It investigates the Gaelicization process that the island underwent in nineteenth century and how it became associated with St Brendan. Finally, it pursues the Brasil Island trope in modern literature, the arts and popular culture.Product Identifiers
PublisherBrill
ISBN-139789042036413
eBay Product ID (ePID)148923187
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Book TitleHy Brasil: the Metamorphosis of an Island: from Cartographic Error to Celtic Elysium
AuthorBarbara Freitag
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterature
Publication Year2013
Number of Pages352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height235mm
Item Width155mm
Volume69
Item Weight557g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorBarbara Freitag
Series TitleTextxet: Studies in Comparative Literature
Country/Region of ManufactureNetherlands
