Emissaries in early modern literature and culture : mediation, transmission, traffic, 1550-1700 / edited by Brinda Charry and Gitanjali Shahani.

SeriesTransculturalisms, 1400-1700
Transculturalisms, 1400-1700. ^A783118
Contents The Shah's two ambassadors : The travels of the three English brothers and the global early modern / Jonathan Burton -- Of gifts, ambassadors, and copy-cats : diplomacy, exchange, and difference in early modern India / Ania Loomba -- Representing the king of Morocco / Virginia Mason Vaughan -- Just passing : Abbé Carré, spy, harem-lord, and 'made in france' / Pompa Banerjee -- 'After my humble dutie remembered' : factors and versus merchants / Barbara Sebek -- Passengers, spies, emissaries, and merchants : travelers and early modern English identity / M. G. Aune -- The translator as emissary : continental works about the Ottomans in England / Linda McJannet -- The Queen of Onor and her emissaries : Fernão Mendes Pinto's dialogue with India / Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski -- Listening to the emissary in Middleton's No wit, no help like a woman's / Marianne Montgomery -- 'Backward and abysm of time' : negotiating with the dead in the tempest / Brinda Charry -- 'Thrown from the rock' : emissaries as midwives and impediments of a new world / Sheila T. Cavanagh.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index.
LCCN 2008026848
ISBN9780754662075 (alk. paper)
ISBN0754662071 (alk. paper)

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