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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782665603321

Titolo

Emissaries in early modern literature and culture [[electronic resource] ] : mediation, transmission, traffic, 1550-1700 / / edited by Brinda Charry and Gitanjali Shahani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2009

ISBN

1-315-57920-0

1-317-14473-2

1-317-14472-4

1-281-96872-2

9786611968724

0-7546-8242-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Collana

Transculturalisms, 1400-1700

Altri autori (Persone)

CharryBrinda

ShahaniGitanjali

Disciplina

820.9/3582

Soggetti

Assimilation (Sociology) in literature

Colonies in literature

Cultural relations in literature

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Literature and society - Great Britain - Colonies - History

National characteristics in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART 1 Discourses of Diplomacy; 1 The Shah's Two Ambassadors: The Travels of the Three English Brothers and the Global Early Modern; 2 Of Gifts, Ambassadors, and Copy-cats: Diplomacy, Exchange, and Difference in Early Modern India; 3 Representing the King of Morocco; PART 2 Agents of Exchange; 4 Just Passing: Abbé Carré, Spy, Harem-lord, and 'made in France'; 5 'After My Humble Dutie Remembered': Factors and / versus Merchants

6 Passengers, Spies, Emissaries, and Merchants: Travel and Early Modern English IdentityPART 3 Language and Technologies of



Mediation; 7 The Translator as Emissary: Continental Works about the Ottomans in England; 8 The Queen of Onor and her Emissaries: Fernão Mendes Pinto's Dialogue with India; 9 Listening to the Emissary in Middleton's No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's; PART 4 Transmission and Transformation; 10 'Backward and Abysm of Time': Negotiating with the Dead in The Tempest; 11 'Thrown from the Rock': Emissaries as Midwives and Impediments of a New World; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

With its focus on early modern emissaries and their role in England's expansionary ventures and cross-cultural encounters across the globe, this collection takes up the literary and cultural productions and representations of ambassadors, factors, traders, translators, spies, middlemen, merchants, missionaries, and other agents, who served as complex conduits for the global transport of goods, religious ideologies, and socio-cultural practices throughout the early modern period.