Emissaries in early modern literature and culture : mediation, transmission, traffic, 1550-1700 / edited by Brinda Charry and Gitanjali Shahani.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index.

The Shah's two ambassadors : The travels of the three English brothers and the global early modern / Jonathan Burton -- Of gifts, ambassadors, and copy-cats : diplomacy, exchange, and difference in early modern India / Ania Loomba -- Representing the king of Morocco / Virginia Mason Vaughan -- Just passing : Abbé Carré, spy, harem-lord, and 'made in france' / Pompa Banerjee -- 'After my humble dutie remembered' : factors and versus merchants / Barbara Sebek -- Passengers, spies, emissaries, and merchants : travelers and early modern English identity / M.G. Aune -- The translator as emissary : continental works about the Ottomans in England / Linda McJannet -- The Queen of Onor and her emissaries : Fernão Mendes Pinto's dialogue with India / Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski -- Listening to the emissary in Middleton's No wit, no help like a woman's / Marianne Montgomery -- 'Backward and abysm of time' : negotiating with the dead in the tempest / Brinda Charry -- 'Thrown from the rock' : emissaries as midwives and impediments of a new world / Sheila T. Cavanagh.

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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 communication within the world of the text, itself an 'emissary' that strives to communicate and re-present certain perceptions of the 'real.' Drawing attention to the limits and licenses of communication, the e.

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