03127nam 2200685Ia 450 991081600980332120200520144314.00-8014-5871-4(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 literature and diplomacy in early modern Europe /Timothy Hampton1st ed.Ithaca 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.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.European literatureRenaissance, 1450-1600History and criticismEuropean literature17th centuryHistory and criticismDiplomacy in literatureInternational relations in literaturePolitics and literatureEuropeHistoryDiplomacyHistoryEuropeForeign relationsEuropePolitics and government1492-1648EuropePolitics and government1648-1789European literatureHistory and criticism.European literatureHistory and criticism.Diplomacy in literature.International relations in literature.Politics and literatureHistory.DiplomacyHistory.809/.894Hampton Timothy614966MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816009803321Fictions of embassy3982836UNINA