Emissaries in early modern literature and culture : mediation, transmission, traffic, 1550-1700 /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 265 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Transculturalisms, 1400-1700 Transculturalisms, 1400-1700.
Subject:	English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. Cultural relations in literature. Literature and society -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History. National characteristics in literature. Colonies in literature. Assimilation (Sociology) in literature. Assimilation (Sociology) in literature. Colonies in literature. Cultural relations in literature. English literature -- Early modern. Literature and society. National characteristics in literature. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11191237

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:	Charry, Brinda. Shahani, Gitanjali.
ISBN:	9780754662075 0754662071 9780754682424 0754682420 1317144724 9781317144724 1281968722 9781281968722 9786611968724 6611968725
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Emissaries in early modern literature and culture. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009 9780754662075

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Part 1. Discourses of Diplomacy: The Shah's 2 ambassadors
The Travels of the 3 English Brothers and the global early modern
Of gifts, ambassadors, and copy-cats: diplomacy, exchange, and difference in early modern India
Representing the King of Morocco
Part 2. Agents of Exchange: Just passing
Abbé Carré, spy, harem-lord, and 'made in France'
'After my humble dutie remembered': factors and/versus merchants
Passengers, spies, emissaries, and merchants: travel and early modern English identity
Part 3. Language and Technologies of Mediation
The translator as emissary: continental works about the Ottomans in England
The Queen of Onor and her emissaries: Fernão Mendes Pinto's dialogue with India
Listening to the emissary in Middleton's No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's
Part IV. Transmission and Transformation
'Backward and abysm of time' negotiating with the dead in The Tempest
'Thrown from the rock': emissaries as midwives and impediments of a new world
Bibliography
Index

Similar Items