Emissaries in early modern literature and culture : mediation, transmission, traffic, 1550-1700 /
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Imprint: | Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (x, 265 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
Series: | Transculturalisms, 1400-1700 Transculturalisms, 1400-1700. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11191237 |
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