England's Asian renaissance / edited by Su Fang Ng and Carmen Nocentelli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Ng, Su Fang, editor.

Nocentelli, Carmen, editor.

Series:

Early modern exchange

The early modern exchange

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

English literature--Asian influences.

East and West in literature.

English literature--Early modern.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

vii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press, [2022]

Summary:

"England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the English language, Eastern themes, characters, and motifs helped shape the country's culture and contributed to its national identity. Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a capacious understanding of translatio as geographic movement, linguistic transformation, and cultural grafting, the collection gives pride of place to convergence, approximation, and hybridity, thus underscoring the radical mobility of early modern culture. In so doing, England's Asian Renaissance also moves away from entrenched narratives of Western cultural sovereignty to think anew England's debts to Asia"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Eurasian Continuum

1. The Ottomans in and of Europe / Abdulhamit Arvas

2. Robert Sherley and the Persian Habit / Nedda Mehdizadeh

3. The East India Company Spice Trade and the Circulation of Shakespearean Imagination / Thea Buckley

pt. II Religious and Cultural Negotiations

4. Religious Emotion and Racialization: Marlowe's Sigismund and the Making of Europe / Jennifer Feather

5. Solomon, Ophir, and the English Quest for the East Indies / Amrita Sen

6. Welfare and Work for All: King Lear and Poor Relief in China and Early Modern England / Rachana Sachdev

pt. III Making the English Stage Eastern

7. Staging China and India in Jacobean Court Masques: Negotiating Antiquity, Admiration, and Authority in 1604 / Emily Soon

8. Constructing the New Exchange: Jonson's Entertainment at Britain's Burse / Richmond Barbour.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781644532416

1644532417

9781644532409

1644532409

OCLC:

1245472906

Publisher Number:

99989754539