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

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Charry, Brinda, Shahani, Gitanjali
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009.
Colección:Transculturalisms, 1400-1700.
Temas:
1500-1700
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.
Relations culturelles dans la littérature.
Caractéristiques nationales dans la littérature.
Colonies dans la littérature.
Assimilation (Sociologie) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature
Colonies in literature
Cultural relations in literature
English literature > Early modern
Literature and society
National characteristics in literature
Engelsk litteratur > historia > 1500-1800.
Litteratur och samhälle > historia > Storbritannien.
Kulturell assimilation.
Nationell identitet i litteraturen.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Shah's two ambassadors : The travels of the three English brothers and the global early modern / Jonathan Burton
  • Of gifts, ambassadors, and copy-cats : diplomacy, exchange, and difference in early modern India / Ania Loomba
  • Representing the king of Morocco / Virginia Mason Vaughan
  • Just passing : Abbé Carré, spy, harem-lord, and 'made in france' / Pompa Banerjee
  • 'After my humble dutie remembered' : factors and versus merchants / Barbara Sebek
  • Passengers, spies, emissaries, and merchants : travelers and early modern English identity / M.G. Aune
  • The translator as emissary : continental works about the Ottomans in England / Linda McJannet
  • The Queen of Onor and her emissaries : Fernão Mendes Pinto's dialogue with India / Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski
  • Listening to the emissary in Middleton's No wit, no help like a woman's / Marianne Montgomery
  • 'Backward and abysm of time' : negotiating with the dead in the tempest / Brinda Charry
  • 'Thrown from the rock' : emissaries as midwives and impediments of a new world / Sheila T. Cavanagh.

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