Cultures of diplomacy and literary writing in the early modern world Sowerby, Tracey Amanda 1979- editor. Craigwood, Joanna editor. text bibliography Electronic books. History Criticism, interpretation, etc. enk 2019 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xv, 283 pages) : illustrations (some color) This interdisciplinary edited collection explores the relationship between literature and diplomacy in the early modern world and studies how texts played an integral part in diplomatic practice. 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. edited by Tracey A. Sowerby and Joanna Craigwood. Includes bibliographical references and index. e------ Diplomatic and consular service History Diplomacy in literature History Arts and diplomacy History Literature, Modern 15th and 16th centuries History and criticism Diplomatic and consular service Service diplomatique et consulaire Histoire Diplomatie dans la littérature Histoire Arts et diplomatie Histoire Littérature 15e et 16e siècles Histoire et critique Service diplomatique et consulaire POLITICAL SCIENCE Government International POLITICAL SCIENCE International Relations General Literature, Modern Diplomacy in literature Arts and diplomacy Diplomatic and consular service 1400-1599 fast JZ1405 .C85 2019 PN56.D55 C86 2019 327.2 Cultures of diplomacy and literary writing in the early modern world Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2019 First edition. (OCoLC)1081190274 (DLC) 2019930087 9780191873225 0191873225 9780192572622 0192572628 9780198835691 0198835698 9780192572639 0192572636 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/36499 EBLCP 190608 20260319180925.2 in00005717305 eng