02905nam 2200673Ia 450 991045993160332120200520144314.00-8014-5871-4(CKB)2670000000081001(OCoLC)726824230(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457592(SSID)ssj0000484347(PQKBManifestationID)11332322(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000484347(PQKBWorkID)10574315(PQKB)10591583(MiAaPQ)EBC3137971(MdBmJHUP)muse28800(Au-PeEL)EBL3137971(CaPaEBR)ebr10457592(EXLCZ)99267000000008100120081009d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFictions of embassy[electronic resource] literature and diplomacy in early modern Europe /Timothy HamptonIthaca Cornell University Press20091 online resource (249 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8014-4775-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.European literatureRenaissance, 1450-1600History and criticismEuropean literature17th centuryHistory and criticismDiplomacy in literatureInternational relations in literaturePolitics and literatureEuropeHistoryDiplomacyHistoryEuropeForeign relationsEuropePolitics and government1492-1648EuropePolitics and government1648-1789Electronic books.European literatureHistory and criticism.European literatureHistory and criticism.Diplomacy in literature.International relations in literature.Politics and literatureHistory.DiplomacyHistory.809/.894Hampton Timothy614966MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459931603321Fictions of embassy2457019UNINA