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Emissaries in Early Modern Literature and Culture - Mediation, Transmission, Traffic, 1550-1700 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Emissaries in Early Modern Literature and Culture - Mediation, Transmission, Traffic, 1550-1700 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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 emissary is a reminder of the
alien quality of foreign language and the symbolic power of
performative gestures and rituals. Contributions to this collection
examine different kinds of cross-cultural activities (e.g.
diplomacy, trade, translation, espionage, missionary endeavors) in
different world areas (e.g. Asia, the Mediterranean, the Levant,
the New World) via different critical methods and approaches. They
take 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.
Authors in the collection investigate the multiple ways in which
the emissary became enmeshed in emerging discourses of racial,
religious, gender, and class differences. They consider how the
emissary's role might have contributed to an idealized progressive
vision of a borderless world or, conversely, permeated and
dissolved borders and boundaries between peoples only to further
specific group interests.
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