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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816009803321

Autore

Hampton Timothy

Titolo

Fictions of embassy : literature and diplomacy in early modern Europe / / Timothy Hampton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8014-5871-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Historians of early modern Europe have long stressed how new practices of diplomacy that emerged during the period transformed European politics. Fictions of Embassy is the first book to examine the cultural implications of the rise of modern.