Fictions of embassy [[electronic resource] ] : literature and diplomacy in early modern Europe / / Timothy Hampton

• Autore: Hampton Timothy
• Pubblicazione: Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2009
• 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Fictions of embassy
• ISBN: 0-8014-5871-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459931603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II