Fictions of embassy literature and diplomacy in early modern Europe

Fictions of embassy : literature and diplomacy in early modern Europe / Timothy Hampton.

Author/creator	Hampton, Timothy
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Ithaca : Cornell University Press,
Description	xi, 235 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600 --History and criticism. European literature--17th century --History and criticism. Diplomacy in literature. International relations in literature. Politics and literature--Europe --History. Diplomacy--History. Europe--Foreign relations. Europe--Politics and government --1492-1648. Europe--Politics and government --1648-1789.

Contents	Introduction : angels and pimps : toward a diplomatic poetics -- Words and deeds : diplomacy and humanist fiction -- The useful and the honorable : the ethics of mediation in the late Renaissance -- Epic and the law of nations : Tasso's Jerusalem delivered -- From Cortez to Camões : identity and authority in the discourse of discovery -- Big states and small states : sovereignty, diplomatic recognition, and the theater of Pierre Corneille -- Hamlet's diplomacy : state-building, dispatch, and revenge -- The tragedy of delegation : diplomatic action and tragic form in Racine's Andromaque -- Conclusion : in the Hôtel des Ambassadeurs.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2008043684
ISBN	9780801447754 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0801447755 (cloth : alk. paper)

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