Fictions of embassy : literature and diplomacy in early modern Europe / Timothy Hampton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hampton, Timothy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.

European literature.

European literature--17th century--History and criticism.

Diplomacy in literature.

International relations in literature.

Politics and literature--Europe--History.

Politics and literature.

Diplomacy--History.

Diplomacy.

Europe--Foreign relations.

Europe.

Europe--Politics and government--1492-1648.

Europe--Politics and government--1648-1789.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8014-5871-4

OCLC:

726824230