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

Publication Info. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 265 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
Transculturalisms, 1400-1700.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index.
Contents 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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Subject Cultural relations in literature.
Cultural relations in literature.
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- Colonies.
Literature and society.
Great Britain.
History.
Colonies.
National characteristics in literature.
National characteristics in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Charry, Brinda.
Shahani, Gitanjali.
Other Form: Emissaries in early modern literature and culture. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009 9780754662075 (DLC) 2008026848 (OCoLC)232358196
ISBN 9780754662075 (alkaline paper)
0754662071 (alkaline paper)
9780754682424 (ebook)
0754682420 (ebook)