Early Modern Exchanges: Dialogues Between Nations and Cultures, 1550-1750

ISBN-13: 9780367880101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 276 str.

Helen Hackett

Opis

The culture of early modern England and Europe was richly hybrid, forged through interactions between diverse nations and language communities, and through new encounters with the wider world beyond Europe. Ranging from the neo-Latin poetry of an English author to the Spanish plays of a nun in the New World, from royal portraits exchanged in diplom

Spis treści

Introduction Helen Hackett

Part I Linguistic Exchanges: Translation and Imitation

1 Translation as a Curerncy of Cultural Exchange in Early Modern England Brenda M. Hosington

2 Translation and Language Learning: The English Version of Petrarch's Triumph of Eternity Attributed to Elizabeth I Alessandra Petrina

3 A Triangular Relationship: Classical Latin Literature in Thomas Capion's Neo-Latin and English Short Poetry Gesine Manuwald

Part II International Dialogues Between Cultural Elites

4 A King and Two Queens: The holograph correspondence of Philip II with Mary I and Elizabeth I Rayne Allinson and Geoffrey Parker

5 Negotiating the Royal Image: Portrait Exchanges in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Diplomacy Tracey A. Sowerby

6 English 'Public' Politics and the French Example, 1620-1640 Noah Millstone

Part III Communities of Exchange, Agents of Exchange

7 The Impact of Sir Thomas Smith Andrew Hadfield

8 Writing the Travel Companion in Seventeenth-Century English Texts about the Ottoman Empire Eva Johanna Holmberg

9 Sor Juana's Los empenos de una casa [The Trials of a Noble House]: Theatrical Exchange between Europe and New Spain Eavan O'Brien

10 The English Convents in Exile and Their Neighbors: Extended Networks, Patrons and Benefactors Caroline Bowden

Epilogue Exchange: Time to Face the Strange? Alexander Samson

O autorze

Helen Hackett is Professor of English at University College London, UK. She is the author of A Short History of English Renaissance Drama, Shakespeare and Elizabeth: The Meeting of Two Myths, Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance, and Virgin Mother, Maiden Queen: Elizabeth I and the Cult of the Virgin Mary.