A Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500-1700

ISBN-13: 9781119626268 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 528 str.

Jyotsna G. Singh

Spis treści

List of Illustrations viiiNotes on Contributors xAcknowledgments xviiiPreface xixIntroduction: The Global Renaissance xxivJyotsna G. SinghPart I: Mapping the Global 11 The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser's Mammon 3Daniel Vitkus2 "Travailing" Theory: Global Flows of Labor and the Enclosure of the Subject 22Crystal Bartolovich3 Islam and Tamburlaine's World-Picture 37John Michael Archer4 Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern Period 50Chloë Houston5 Understanding Slavery in Early Modern Asia: Jesuit Scholarship from Seventeenth-Century Iberia and Asia 64Stuart M. McManusPart II: "Contact Zones" 796 "Apes of Imitation": Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe's Embassy to India 81Nandini Das7 Early Modern European Encounters with Japan: Luis Frois and Engelbert Kaempfer 95Mihoko Suzuki8 Other Renaissances, Multiple Easts, and Eurasian Borderlands: Teresa Sampsonia Sherley's Journey from Persia to Poland, 1608-1611 115Bernadette Andrea9 Becoming Mughal, Becoming Dom João de Távora: Friendship, Dissimulation, and Manipulation in Jesuit and Mughal Exchanges 130João Vicente Melo10 The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns 149Ian Smith11 The Benefits of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel Before Empire 162Andrew Hadfield12 The Politics of Identity: Reassessing Global Encounters Through the Failure of the English East India Company in Japan 173Catherine Ryu13 Placing Iceland 184Mary C. Fuller14 East by Northeast: The English Among the Russians, 1553-1603 197Gerald MacLean15 Connected Political Imaginaries: The ShaÉhnaÉmah and Anglo-Persian Alliance Building, 1599-1628 210Masoud GhorbaninejadPart III: "To Live by Traffic": Global Networks of Exchange 22916 The Unseen World of Willem Schellinks: Local Milieu and Global Circulation in the Visualization of Mughal India 231Jos Gommans and Jan de Hond17 Hakluyt's Books and Hawkins' Slaving Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the English National Imaginary, 1560-1600 249Jyotsna G. Singh18 Guns and Gawds: Elizabethan England's "Infidel" Trade 276Matthew Dimmock19 Seeds of Sacrifice: Amaranth, The Gardens of Tenochtitlan, and Spenser's Faerie Queene 290Edward M. Test20 "So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous": The Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern England 305Stephen Deng21 Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English Traders in the Canaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 319Barbara Sebek22 "The Whole Globe of the Earth": Almanacs and Their Readers 332Adam Smyth23 Cesare Vecellio, Venetian Writer and Art-Book Cosmopolitan 341Ann Rosalind Jones24 A Multinational Corporation: Labor and Ethnicity in the London East India Company 360Richmond Barbour25 Patterning the Tatar Girl in George Puttenham's The Art of English Poesie (1589) 377Ladan NiayeshPart IV: The Globe Staged 38726 Bettrice's Monkey: Staging Exotica in Early Modern London Comedy 389Jean E. Howard27 The Maltese Factor: The Poetics of Place in The Jew of Malta and The Knight of Malta 402Virginia Mason Vaughan28 Local-Global Pericles: International Storytelling, Domestic Social Relations, Capitalism 415David Morrow29 Staging the Global in the Street: Spices, London Companies, and Thomas Middleton's The Triumphs of Honor and Industry 433Amrita SenAfterword: Lyric Poetics for the Global Renaissance 447Ayesha RamachandranIndex 457

O autorze

Jyotsna G. Singh is a Professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University. She is the author or editor of numerous books including Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues: "Discoveries" of India in the Language of Colonialism; Travel Knowledge: European "Discoveries" in the Early Modern Period (co-ed. Ivo Kamps); Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory, A Companion to the Global Renaissance, and the book series New Transculturalisms, 1400-1800. Professor Singh has received visiting fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Queen Mary University of London, the John Carter Brown Library, and was most recently elected a Visiting Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford University, UK, 2019.