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Emissaries in Early Modern Literature and Culture Mediation, Transmission, Traffic, 1550–1700
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With its emphasis on early modern emissaries and their role in England's expansionary ventures and cross-cultural encounters across the globe, this collection of essays takes the messenger figure as a focal point for the discussion of transnational exchange and intercourse in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It sees the emissary as embodying the processes of representation and... Read more
Introduction, Brinda Charry, Gitanjali Shahani; Part 1 Discourses of Diplomacy; Chapter 1 The Shah's Two Ambassadors: The Travels of the Three English Brothers and the Global Early Modern, Jonathan Burton; Chapter 2, Ania Loomba; Chapter 3 Representing the King of Morocco, Virginia Mason Vaughan; Part 2 Agents of Exchange; Chapter 4 Just Passing: Abbé Carré, Spy, Harem-lord, and 'made in France', Pompa Banerjee; Chapter 5 'After My Humble Dutie Remembered': Factors and / versus Merchants, Barbara Sebek; Chapter 6 Passengers, Spies, Emissaries, and Merchants: Travel and Early Modern English Identity, M.G. Aune; Part 3 Language and Technologies of Mediation; Chapter 7 The Translator as Emissary: Continental Works about the Ottomans in England, Linda McJannet; Chapter 8 The Queen of Onor and her Emissaries: Fernão Mendes Pinto's Dialogue with India, Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski; Chapter 9 Listening to the Emissary in Middleton's No Wit, No Help Like a Woman s, Marianne Montgomery; Part 4 Transmission and Transformation; Chapter 10 'Backward and Abysm of Time': Negotiating with the Dead in The Tempest, Brinda Charry; Chapter 11 'Thrown from the Rock': Emissaries as Midwives and Impediments of a New World, Sheila T. Cavanagh;
Biography
Brinda Charry is Assistant Professor of English at Keene State College, USA. Gitanjali Shahani is Assistant Professor of English at San Francisco State University, USA.
’... Charry and Shahani's collection charts new ways of thinking about the legal, technological, linguistic, and mercantile frameworks that defined relations between states and peoples in what we might think of as the first wave of globalization.’ Clio '... the individual essays are generally of high quality and contain much interesting material... [A] valuable contribution to the current interest in cultural exchange and diversity.' Notes and Queries
