Cultures of diplomacy and literary writing in the early modern world / Tracey A. Sowerby and Joanna Craigwood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sowerby, Tracey Amanda, 1979- editor.

Craigwood, Joanna, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--15th and 16th centuries--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Diplomacy in literature--History.

Diplomacy in literature.

Arts and diplomacy--History.

Arts and diplomacy.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages)

Edition:

New product edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This interdisciplinary volume explores core emerging themes in the study of early modern literary-diplomatic relations, developing essential methods of analysis and theoretical approaches that will shape future research in the field. Contributions focus on three intimately related areas: the impact of diplomatic protocol on literary production; the role of texts in diplomatic practice, particularly those that operated as 'textual ambassadors'; and the impact of changes in the literary sphere on diplomatic culture. The literary sphere held such a central place because it gave diplomats the tools to negotiate the pervasive ambiguities of diplomacy; simultaneously literary depictions of diplomacy and international law provided genre-shaped places for cultural reflection on the rapidly changing and expanding diplomatic sphere.

Contents:

Introduction: literary and diplomatic cultures in the early modern world

I. Literary engagements

The place of the literary in European diplomacy: origin myths in ambassadorial handbooks

Distinguished visitors: literary genre and diplomatic space in Shakespeare, Calderón, and Proust

Lines of amity: the law of nations in the Americas

Diplomatic pathos: Sidney's brazen fictions and the troubled origins of international law

II. Translation

Translation and communication: war and peace by other means

The politics of translation: The Lusiads and European diplomacy (1580-1664)

Translation and cultural convergence in late sixteenth-century Scotland and Huguenot France

III. Dissemination

Books as diplomatic agentss: Milton in Sweden

Diplomatic knowledge on display: foreign affairs in the early modern English public sphere

A diplomatic narrative in the archive: the War of Cyprus, record keeping practices, and historical research in the early modern Venetian Chancery

IV. Diplomatic documents

Textual ambassadors and ambassadorial texts: literary representation and diplomatic practice in George Turberville's and Thomas Randolph's accounts of Russia (1568-9)

Diplomatic writing as aristocratic self-fashioning: French ambassadors in Constantinople

Negotiating with the material text: royal correspondence between England and the wider world

Ritual practice and textual representations: free imperial cities in the society of princes.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 10, 2019).

This edition also issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-257263-6

0-19-187322-5

0-19-257262-8