LEADER 04102nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910782665603321 005 20230721004718.0 010 $a1-315-57920-0 010 $a1-317-14473-2 010 $a1-317-14472-4 010 $a1-281-96872-2 010 $a9786611968724 010 $a0-7546-8242-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000707234 035 $a(EBL)438489 035 $a(OCoLC)318541279 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000146012 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11164795 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000146012 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10182466 035 $a(PQKB)10681997 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL438489 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10273839 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL919209 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC438489 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000707234 100 $a20080617d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aEmissaries in early modern literature and culture$b[electronic resource] $emediation, transmission, traffic, 1550-1700 /$fedited by Brinda Charry and Gitanjali Shahani 210 $aFarnham, England ;$aBurlington, VT $cAshgate$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (278 p.) 225 1 $aTransculturalisms, 1400-1700 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7546-6207-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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: Abbe? Carre?, Spy, Harem-lord, and 'made in France'; 5 'After My Humble Dutie Remembered': Factors and / versus Merchants 327 $a6 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: Ferna?o 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; Index 330 $aWith its focus on early modern emissaries and their role in England's expansionary ventures and cross-cultural encounters across the globe, this collection takes up the literary and cultural productions and representations of ambassadors, factors, traders, translators, spies, middlemen, merchants, missionaries, and other agents, who served as complex conduits for the global transport of goods, religious ideologies, and socio-cultural practices throughout the early modern period. 410 0$aTransculturalisms, 1400-1700. 606 $aAssimilation (Sociology) in literature 606 $aColonies in literature 606 $aCultural relations in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zGreat Britain$xColonies$xHistory 606 $aNational characteristics in literature 615 0$aAssimilation (Sociology) in literature. 615 0$aColonies in literature. 615 0$aCultural relations in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xColonies$xHistory. 615 0$aNational characteristics in literature. 676 $a820.9/3582 701 $aCharry$b Brinda$01561737 701 $aShahani$b Gitanjali$01561738 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782665603321 996 $aEmissaries in early modern literature and culture$93828739 997 $aUNINA