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  1. Emissaries in early modern literature and culture
    mediation, transmission, traffic, 1550-1700
    Contributor: Charry, Brinda (Herausgeber); Shahani, Gitanjali
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Farnham, England [u.a.] ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    Contributor: Charry, Brinda (Herausgeber); Shahani, Gitanjali
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780754662075; 0754662071; 9780754682424; 0754682420
    RVK Categories: EC 2410 ; NN 1400
    Series: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 265 pages), Illustrations
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index

  2. Emissaries in early modern literature and culture
    mediation, transmission, traffic, 1550-1700
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Farnham, England

    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... more

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    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
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    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    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. With its emphasis on early modern emissaries and their role in England's expansionary ventures and cross-cultural encounters across the globe, this collection of essays takes the messenger figure as a focal point for the discussion of transnational exchange and intercourse in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It sees the emissary as embodying the processes of representation and communication within the world of the text, itself an 'emissary' that strives to communicate and re-present certain perceptions of the 'real.' Drawing attention to the limits and licenses of communication, the e

     

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  3. Emissaries in early modern literature and culture
    mediation, transmission, traffic, 1550-1700
    Published: ©2009
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Farnham, England

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780754662075; 0754662071; 9780754682424; 0754682420
    Series: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
    Subjects: English literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Geschichte; Kolonie; English literature; Cultural relations in literature; Literature and society; National characteristics in literature; Colonies in literature; Assimilation (Sociology) in literature; Literatur; Englisch; Kulturkontakt; Gesandter
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 265 pages)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index

    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

  4. Emissaries in early modern literature and culture
    mediation, transmission, traffic, 1550-1700
    Published: c2009
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Farnham, England

    With its focus on early modern emissaries and their role in England's expansionary ventures and cross-cultural encounters across the globe, this collection takes up the literary and cultural productions and representations of ambassadors, factors,... more

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    With its focus on early modern emissaries and their role in England's expansionary ventures and cross-cultural encounters across the globe, this collection takes up the literary and cultural productions and representations of ambassadors, factors, traders, translators, spies, middlemen, merchants, missionaries, and other agents, who served as complex conduits for the global transport of goods, religious ideologies, and socio-cultural practices throughout the early modern period

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1281968722; 0754662071; 9780754682424; 9781281968722; 9780754662075
    Series: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
    Subjects: Cultural relations in literature; English literature; Assimilation (Sociology) in literature; Colonies in literature; Literature and society; National characteristics in literature
    Scope: Online-Ressource (x, 265 p), ill
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

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    Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART 1 Discourses of Diplomacy; 1 The Shah's Two Ambassadors: The Travels of the Three English Brothers and the Global Early Modern; 2 Of Gifts, Ambassadors, and Copy-cats: Diplomacy, Exchange, and Difference in Early Modern India; 3 Representing the King of Morocco; PART 2 Agents of Exchange; 4 Just Passing: Abbé Carré, Spy, Harem-lord, and 'made in France'; 5 'After My Humble Dutie Remembered': Factors and / versus Merchants

    6 Passengers, Spies, Emissaries, and Merchants: Travel and Early Modern English IdentityPART 3 Language and Technologies of Mediation; 7 The Translator as Emissary: Continental Works about the Ottomans in England; 8 The Queen of Onor and her Emissaries: Fernão Mendes Pinto's Dialogue with India; 9 Listening to the Emissary in Middleton's No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's; PART 4 Transmission and Transformation; 10 'Backward and Abysm of Time': Negotiating with the Dead in The Tempest; 11 'Thrown from the Rock': Emissaries as Midwives and Impediments of a New World; Bibliography; Index