A companion to the global Renaissance : English literature and culture in the era of expansion

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Title:

Author:

Singh, Jyotsna G., 1951-

ISBN:

9781405154765

Publication Information:

Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell Pub., 2009.

Physical Description:

xvii, 400 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture

Series Title:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

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 -- 4. Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern Period -- 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 -- 7. A Multinational Corporation: Foreign Labor in the London East India Company -- 8. Where was Iceland in 1600? -- 9. East by North-east: The English among the Russians, 1553–1603 -- 10. The Politics of Identity: William Adams, John Saris, and the English East India Company’s Failure in Japan -- 11. The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns -- Part III: Networks of Exchange: Traveling Objects -- 12. Guns and Gawds: Elizabethan England’s Infidel Trade -- 13. Cassio, Cash, and the “Infidel 0”: Arithmetic, Double-entry Book-keeping, and Othello’s Unfaithful Accounts -- 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 -- 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 -- 20. The Maltese Factor: The Poetics of Place in The Jew of Malta and The Knight of Malta -- 21. Local/Global Pericles: International Storytelling, Domestic Social Relations, Capitalism.

Subject Term:

English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.

Globalization in literature.

Literature and society.

Renaissance -- England.

Geographic Term:

Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 16th century.

Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.

Great Britain -- Commerce -- History -- 16th century.

Great Britain -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century.

Great Britain -- Foreign relations.

Added Author:

Singh, Jyotsna G., 1951-

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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