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mods: 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 prin…