A Companion to the Global Renaissance : English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion.

Featuring twenty one newly-commissioned essays, A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion demonstrates how today's globalization is the result of a complex and lengthy historical process that had its roots in England's mercantile and cros...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Singh, Jyotsna G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Wiley, 2013.
Colección:Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
Temas:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Globalization in literature.
Literature and society.
Renaissance > England.
Mondialisation dans la littérature.
Littérature et société.
Renaissance > Angleterre.
Commerce
Diplomatic relations
English literature > Early modern
Globalization in literature
Intellectual life
Literature and society
Renaissance
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 16th century.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 17th century.
Great Britain > Commerce > History > 16th century.
Great Britain > Commerce > History > 17th century.
Great Britain > Foreign relations.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 16e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 17e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Relations extérieures.
England
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Global Renaissance; I Globes; II The Global Renaissance; III Mapping the Global; IV "Contact Zones"; V Networks of Exchange: Traveling Objects; VI The Globe Staged; PART I: Mapping the Global; 1: The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser's Mammon; 2: "Travailing" Theory: Global Flows of Labor and the Enclosure of the Subject; 3: Islam and Tamburlaine's World-picture; I The Orbicular Renaissance; II Marlowe, Islam, and the Image.
  • 4: Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern PeriodI Introduction: The Global Context; II Utopian Contexts: Lucian and Travel; III Utopia and Travel; IV The Early Seventeenth Century: Bacon and Andreae; V Travel and Utopia: Global Discourses; Part II: "Contact Zones"; 5: The Benefits of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel before Empire; 6: "Apes of Imitation": Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe's Embassy to India; I; II; III; 7: A Multinational Corporation: Foreign Labor in the London East India Company; I The Directors in London; II "The English Nation at Bantam."
  • III Reckoning with Workers and AliensIV The loss of the Trades Increase; 8: Where was Iceland in 1600?; I History; II Practice; III Commentary; IV Closing Remarks; 9: East by North-east: The English among the Russians, 1553-1603; I A Second Cold War?; II By Sea to Cathay; III Hakluyt, and Books to Build an Empire; IV By Way of Conclusion; 10: The Politics of Identity: William Adams, John Saris, and the English East India Company's Failure in Japan; I Introduction; II Adams's Politics of Identity; III Conclusion; 11: The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns; I Travel Relations.
  • 15: "So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous": The Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern EnglandI; II; III; 16: Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English Traders in the Canaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; 17: "The Whole Globe of the Earth": Almanacs and Their Readers; 18: Cesare Vecellio, Venetian Writer and Art-book Cosmopolitan; PART IV: The Globe Staged; 19: Bettrice's Monkey: Staging Exotica in Early Modern London Comedy; I Props; II Monkeys; III Eastward Ho; IV Geography; V Coda.

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