Early Modern Constructions of Europe: Literature, Culture, History

ISBN-13: 9781138931596 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 222 str.

Florian Klager; Gerd Bayer

Opis

This book examines the pre-history of the idea of Europe, asking how and why Europe was imagined, from both within and without, between 1450 and 1750. It discusses ‘European-ness’ as the product of dynamic processes of identification involving factors such as literary genres, classical antiquity, language, religion, politics, and geography. Studying the role of tradition and lived experience of early modern Europe, it also identifies anticipatory elements in the construction of European-ness that may remain effective today. Essays consider early modern plays, poems, and narrative fiction, as well as cartography, historiography, iconography, travelogues, periodicals, and political polemics.

Spis treści

Introduction: Early Modern Constructions of Europe Florian Kläger and Gerd Bayer  Part I: Others  1. Europeans before Europe: Modernity and the Myth of the Other David Blanks  2. Ürubba in Early Modern Arabic Sources Nabil Matar  3. Europeanizing the Turks in Robert Greene’s Alphonsus, King of Aragon Ladan Niayesh  Part II: Genres  4. The Survival of Medieval Antiquity: Fifteenth-Century Transformations of the Roman Antique Tradition in Castile and Beyond Clara Pascual-Argente  5. Europe in Love: Contemporary History and Fiction in the German "European Novel" Nicolas Detering  6. Mapping Margins in the Mediterranean: Europe, Africa, and Richard Johnson’s The Seven Champions of Christendom Goran Stanivukovic  Part III: Values  7. Imperial Violence and the Limits of Tolerance: Reading Luther with Las Casas Nina Berman  8. Saxon Agonistes: Reconstructing and Deconstructing Identities in Milton’s History of Britain Willy Maley  9."The Ship of Europe": The Iconography of John Dee’s General and Rare Memorials Eliza Richter  10. The European Imaginary in the Discourse on Peace Paul Michael Lützeler

O autorze

Florian Kläger is Assistant Professor of British Studies at the University of Münster, Germany. Gerd Bayer is Reader in the English Department at Erlangen University, Germany.