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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Charry, Brinda.

Shahani, Gitanjali.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Transculturalisms, 1400-1700

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Cultural relations in literature.

Literature and society--History--Colonies--Great Britain.

Literature and society.

History.

Colonies.

Great Britain.

National characteristics in literature.

Colonies in literature.

Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]

Contents:

The Shah's two ambassadors : The travels of the three English brothers and the global early modern / Jonathan Burton

Of gifts, ambassadors, and copy-cats : diplomacy, exchange, and difference in early modern India / Ania Loomba

Representing the king of Morocco / Virginia Mason Vaughan

Just passing : Abbé Carré, spy, harem-lord, and 'made in france' / Pompa Banerjee

'After my humble dutie remembered' : factors and versus merchants / Barbara Sebek

Passengers, spies, emissaries, and merchants : travelers and early modern English identity / M. G. Aune

The translator as emissary : continental works about the Ottomans in England / Linda McJannet

The Queen of Onor and her emissaries : Fernão Mendes Pinto's dialogue with India / Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski

Listening to the emissary in Middleton's No wit, no help like a woman's / Marianne Montgomery

'Backward and abysm of time' : negotiating with the dead in the tempest / Brinda Charry

'Thrown from the rock' : emissaries as midwives and impediments of a new world / Sheila T. Cavanagh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-256) and index.

ISBN:

9780754662075

0754662071

OCLC:

232358196