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Autore: |
Hampton Timothy
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Titolo: |
Fictions of embassy : literature and diplomacy in early modern Europe / / Timothy Hampton
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Pubblicazione: | Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2009 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
Disciplina: | 809/.894 |
Soggetto topico: | European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism |
European literature - 17th century - History and criticism | |
Diplomacy in literature | |
International relations in literature | |
Politics and literature - Europe - History | |
Diplomacy - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | Europe Foreign relations |
Europe Politics and government 1492-1648 | |
Europe Politics and government 1648-1789 | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Fictions of embassy ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8014-5871-4 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910816009803321 |
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