Companion to the Global Renaissance : English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion.
Title:
Companion to the Global Renaissance : English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion.
Author:
Singh, Jyotsna G.
ISBN:
9781444310979
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (420 pages)
Series:
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture ; v.130
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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 Period -- I 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 Aliens -- IV 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 -- II The Sagittary, or Sodomy's Inevitable Narrative -- III Transvestite Innkeepers -- IV The Seraglio and International Affairs -- V Race and the Queer Moor -- PART III: Networks of Exchange: Traveling Objects -- 12: Guns and Gawds: Elizabethan England's Infi del Trade -- I Gawds -- II Lead, Vittaile, and Ordenance -- III Stranger Exchanges -- 13: Cassio, Cash, and the "Infidel 0": Arithmetic, Double-entry Bookkeeping, and Othello's Unfaithful Accounts -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- 14: Seeds of Sacrifice: Amaranth, the Gardens of Tenochtitlan and Spenser's Faerie Queene -- 15: "So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous": The Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern England -- I -- 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 -- 20: The Maltese Factor: The Poetics of Place in The Jew of Malta and The Knight of Malta -- I -- II -- III -- 21: Local/Global Pericles: International Storytelling, Domestic Social Relations, Capitalism -- I Greek Romance and English Social Change -- II Communal Ideology and Popular Culture -- III The Fishermen, Labor, and Agrarian Complaint -- IV Performing (Social Relations) in the Brothel -- Index.
Abstract:
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 cross-cultural interactions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. An innovative collection that interrogates the global paradigm of our period and offers a new history of globalization by exploring its influences on English culture and literature of the early modern period. Moves beyond traditional notions of Renaissance history mainly as a revival of antiquity and presents a new perspective on England's mercantile and cross-cultural interactions with the New and Old Worlds of the Americas, Africa, and the East, as well with Northern Europe. Illustrates how twentieth-century globalization was the result of a lengthy and complex historical process linked to the emergence of capitalism and colonialism Explores vital topics such as East-West relations and Islam; visual representations of cultural 'others'; gender and race struggles within the new economies and cultures; global drama on the cosmopolitan English stage, and many more.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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