![Cover: Envisioning The Worst: Representations of “Hottentots” in Early-Modern England Cover: Envisioning The Worst: Representations of “Hottentots” in Early-Modern England](https://udpress.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/envisioningfeatured-213x300.jpg)
This book examines early modern English constructions of “Hottentots” as humanity’s most base and beastly people. The book presents the entire course of pre-colonial literary and visual representations of “Hottentots” written from the end of the sixteenth century until the opening decades of the nineteenth century.