A Companion to the Global Renaissance - English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion (Hardcover, New)

Featuring twenty one newly-commissioned essays, "A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion" demonstrates how today's globalization is the result of a complex and lengthy historical process that had its roots in England's mercantile and cross-cultural interactions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. An innovative collection that interrogates the global paradigm of our period and offers a new history of globalization by exploring its influences on English culture and literature of the early modern period.Moves beyond traditional notions of Renaissance history mainly as a revival of antiquity and presents a new perspective on England's mercantile and cross-cultural interactions with the New and Old Worlds of the Americas, Africa, and the East, as well with Northern Europe.Illustrates how twentieth-century globalization was the result of a lengthy and complex historical process linked to the emergence of capitalism and colonialismExplores vital topics such as East-West relations and Islam; visual representations of cultural 'others'; gender and race struggles within the new economies and cultures; global drama on the cosmopolitan English stage, and many more

General

Imprint:	Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
Release date:	April 2009
First published:	June 2009
Editors:	Jyotsna G. Singh
Dimensions:	247 x 179 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	424
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-4051-5476-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4051-5476-4
Barcode:	9781405154765

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