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| Other authors / contributors: | Charry, Brinda.
Shahani, Gitanjali.
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| ISBN: | 9780754662075
0754662071
9780754682424
0754682420
1317144724
9781317144724
1281968722
9781281968722
9786611968724
6611968725
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | With its emphasis on early modern emissaries and their role in England's expansionary ventures and cross-cultural encounters across the globe, this collection of essays takes the messenger figure as a focal point for the discussion of transnational exchange and intercourse in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It sees the emissary as embodying the processes of representation and communication within the world of the text, itself an 'emissary' that strives to communicate and re-present certain perceptions of the 'real.' Drawing attention to the limits and licenses of communication, the e.
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| Other form: | Emissaries in early modern literature and culture. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009 9780754662075
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