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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789615703321

Autore

Hampton Timothy

Titolo

Fictions of embassy [[electronic resource] ] : literature and diplomacy in early modern Europe / / Timothy Hampton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8014-5871-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

809/.894

Soggetti

European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism

European literature - 17th century - History and criticism

Diplomacy in literature

International relations in literature

Politics and literature - Europe - History

Diplomacy - History

Europe Foreign relations

Europe Politics and government 1492-1648

Europe Politics and government 1648-1789

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : angels and pimps : toward a diplomatic poetics -- Words and deeds : diplomacy and humanist fiction -- The useful and the honorable : the ethics of mediation in the late Renaissance -- Epic and the law of nations : Tasso's Jerusalem delivered -- From Cortez to Camões : identity and authority in the discourse of discovery -- Big states and small states : sovereignty, diplomatic recognition, and the theater of Pierre Corneille -- Hamlet's diplomacy : state-building, dispatch, and revenge -- The tragedy of delegation : diplomatic action and tragic form in Racine's Andromaque -- Conclusion : in the Hôtel des Ambassadeurs.