Emissaries in early modern literature and culture [[electronic resource] ] : mediation, transmission, traffic, 1550-1700 / / edited by Brinda Charry and Gitanjali Shahani

• Pubblicazione: Farnham, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/3582
• Soggetto topico: Assimilation (Sociology) in literature; Colonies in literature; Cultural relations in literature; English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Literature and society - Great Britain - Colonies - History; National characteristics in literature
• Altri autori: CharryBrinda ShahaniGitanjali
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Merchants ; 6 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: With 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Emissaries in early modern literature and culture
• ISBN: 1-315-57920-0; 1-317-14473-2; 1-317-14472-4; 1-281-96872-2; 9786611968724; 0-7546-8242-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782665603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700.