Mimesis and empire : the new world, Islam, and European identities /

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Author / Creator:Fuchs, Barbara, 1970-
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 211 pages)
Language:English
Series:Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 40
Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 40.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11117031
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ISBN:0511013035
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-205) and index.
English.
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Summary:Explores the dynamics of imitation among early modern European powers in literary and historiographical texts from sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Spain, Italy, England, and the New World. The author considers problems of reading and literary transmission; imperial ideology and colonial identities; counterfeits and forgery; and piracy.
Other form:Print version: Fuchs, Barbara, 1970- Mimesis and empire. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001 0521801028