A companion to the global Renaissance : literature and culture in the era of expansion, 1500-1700 /
Provides readers with a deeper and more nuanced understanding of both macro and micro perspectives on the commercial and cross-cultural interactions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Covering a uniquely broad range of literary and cultural materials, historical contexts and geographical re...
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| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons,
[2021].
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Mapping the global. 1. The new globalism : transcultural commerce, global systems theory, and Spenser's Mammon / Daniel Vitkus ; 2. "Travailing" theory : global flows of labor and the enclosure of the subject / Crystal Bartolovich ; 3. Islam and Tamburlaine's world-picture / John Michael Archer ; 4. Traveling nowhere : global utopias in the early modern period / Chlo͡ Houston ; 5. Understanding slavery in early modern Asia : Jesuit scholarship from seventeenth-century Iberia and Asia / Stuart M. McManus
- Part II. "Contact zones". 6. "Apes of imitation" : imitation and identity in Sir Thomas Roe's embassy to India / Nandini Das ; 7. Early modern European encounters with Japan : Luis Frois and Engelbert Kaempfer / Mihoko Suzuki ; 8. Other renaissances, multiple easts, and Eurasian borderlands : Teresa Sampsonia Sherley's journey from Persia to Poland, 1608-1611 / Bernadette Andrea ; 9. Becoming Mughal, becoming Dom João de Távora : friendship, dissimulation, and manipulation in Jesuit and Mughal exchanges / João Vicente Melo ; 10. The queer moor : bodies, borders, and Barbary inns / Ian Smith ; 11. The benefits of a warm study : the resistance to travel before empire / Andrew Hadfield ; 12. The politics of identity : reassessing global encounters through the failure of the English East India company in Japan / Catherine Ryu ; 13. Placing Iceland / Mary C. Fuller ; 14. East by northeast : the English among the Russians, 1553-1603 / Gerald MacLean ; 15. Connected political imaginaries : the Shāhnāmah and Anglo-Persian alliance building, 1599-1628 / Masoud Ghorbaninejad
- Part III. "To live by traffic" : global networks of exchange. 16. The unseen world of Willem Schellinks : local milieu and global circulation in the visualization of Mughal India / Jos Gommans and Jan de Hond ; 17. Hakluyt's books and Hawkins' slaving voyages : the transatlantic slave trade in the English national imaginary, 1560-1600 / Jyotsna G. Singh ; 18. Guns and gawds : Elizabethan England's "infidel" trade / Matthew Dimmock ; 19. Seeds of sacrifice : amaranth, the gardens of Tenochtitlan, and Spenser's Faerie Queene / Edward M. Test ; 20. "So pale, so lame, so lean, so ruinous" : the circulation of foreign coins in early modern England / Stephen Deng ; 21. Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses : English traders in the Canaries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Barbara Sebek ; 22. "The whole globe of the earth" : almanacs and their readers / Adam Smyth ; 23. Cesare Vecellio, Venetian writer and art-book cosmopolitan / Ann Rosalind Jones ; 24. A multinational corporation : labor and ethnicity in the London East India Company / Richmond Barbour ; 25. Patterning the Tatar girl in George Puttenham's The Art of English Poesie (1589) / Ladan Niayesh
- Part IV. The globe staged. 26. Bettrice's monkey : staging exotica in early modern London comedy / Jean E. Howard ; 27. The Maltese factor : the poetics of place in The Jew of Malta and The Knight of Malta / Virginia Mason Vaughan ; 28. Local-global Pericles : international storytelling, domestic social relations, capitalism / David Morrow ; 29. Staging the global in the street : spices, London companies, and Thomas Middleton's The Triumphs of Honor and Industry / Amrita Sen
- Afterword. Lyric poetics for the global renaissance / Ayesha Ramachandran.