A Companion to the Global Renaissance English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion.
Featuring twenty one newly-commissioned essays, A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion demonstrates how today's globalization is the result of a complex and lengthy historical process that had its roots in England's mercantile and cros...
| Main Author: | Singh, Jyotsna G., 1951- |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Wiley,
2013.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (420 pages). |
| Series: |
Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Global Renaissance; I Globes; II The Global Renaissance; III Mapping the Global; IV "Contact Zones"; V Networks of Exchange: Traveling Objects; VI The Globe Staged; PART I: Mapping the Global; 1: The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser's Mammon; 2: "Travailing" Theory: Global Flows of Labor and the Enclosure of the Subject; 3: Islam and Tamburlaine's World-picture; I The Orbicular Renaissance; II Marlowe, Islam, and the Image.
- 4: Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern PeriodI Introduction: The Global Context; II Utopian Contexts: Lucian and Travel; III Utopia and Travel; IV The Early Seventeenth Century: Bacon and Andreae; V Travel and Utopia: Global Discourses; Part II: "Contact Zones"; 5: The Benefits of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel before Empire; 6: "Apes of Imitation": Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe's Embassy to India; I; II; III; 7: A Multinational Corporation: Foreign Labor in the London East India Company; I The Directors in London; II "The English Nation at Bantam."
- III Reckoning with Workers and AliensIV The loss of the Trades Increase; 8: Where was Iceland in 1600?; I History; II Practice; III Commentary; IV Closing Remarks; 9: East by North-east: The English among the Russians, 1553-1603; I A Second Cold War?; II By Sea to Cathay; III Hakluyt, and Books to Build an Empire; IV By Way of Conclusion; 10: The Politics of Identity: William Adams, John Saris, and the English East India Company's Failure in Japan; I Introduction; II Adams's Politics of Identity; III Conclusion; 11: The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns; I Travel Relations.
- 15: "So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous": The Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern EnglandI; II; III; 16: Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English Traders in the Canaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; 17: "The Whole Globe of the Earth": Almanacs and Their Readers; 18: Cesare Vecellio, Venetian Writer and Art-book Cosmopolitan; PART IV: The Globe Staged; 19: Bettrice's Monkey: Staging Exotica in Early Modern London Comedy; I Props; II Monkeys; III Eastward Ho; IV Geography; V Coda.