04102nam 2200745Ia 450 991078266560332120230721004718.01-315-57920-01-317-14473-21-317-14472-41-281-96872-297866119687240-7546-8242-0(CKB)1000000000707234(EBL)438489(OCoLC)318541279(SSID)ssj0000146012(PQKBManifestationID)11164795(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000146012(PQKBWorkID)10182466(PQKB)10681997(Au-PeEL)EBL438489(CaPaEBR)ebr10273839(CaONFJC)MIL919209(MiAaPQ)EBC438489(EXLCZ)99100000000070723420080617d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEmissaries in early modern literature and culture[electronic resource] mediation, transmission, traffic, 1550-1700 /edited by Brinda Charry and Gitanjali ShahaniFarnham, England ;Burlington, VT Ashgatec20091 online resource (278 p.)Transculturalisms, 1400-1700Description based upon print version of record.0-7546-6207-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Merchants6 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; IndexWith 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.Transculturalisms, 1400-1700.Assimilation (Sociology) in literatureColonies in literatureCultural relations in literatureEnglish literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismLiterature and societyGreat BritainColoniesHistoryNational characteristics in literatureAssimilation (Sociology) in literature.Colonies in literature.Cultural relations in literature.English literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and societyColoniesHistory.National characteristics in literature.820.9/3582Charry Brinda1561737Shahani Gitanjali1561738MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782665603321Emissaries in early modern literature and culture3828739UNINA