TY  - BOOK
AU  - Charry,Brinda
AU  - Shahani,Gitanjali
TI  - Emissaries in early modern literature and culture: mediation, transmission, traffic, 1550-1700 
T2  - Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
SN  - 9780754662075
AV  - PR421 .E6 2009
U1  - 820.9/3582 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Farnham, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - English literature
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Cultural relations in literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Colonies
KW  - History
KW  - National characteristics in literature
KW  - Colonies in literature
KW  - Assimilation (Sociology) in literature
KW  - Relations culturelles dans la littérature
KW  - Caractéristiques nationales dans la littérature
KW  - Colonies dans la littérature
KW  - Assimilation (Sociologie) dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Early modern
KW  - Engelsk litteratur
KW  - historia
KW  - 1500-1800
KW  - sao
KW  - Litteratur och samhälle
KW  - Storbritannien
KW  - Kulturell assimilation
KW  - Nationell identitet i litteraturen
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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