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Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World (Hardcover)
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Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World (Hardcover)
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This interdisciplinary volume explores core emerging themes in the
study of early modern literary-diplomatic relations, developing
essential methods of analysis and theoretical approaches that will
shape future research in the field. Contributions focus on three
intimately related areas: the impact of diplomatic protocol on
literary production; the role of texts in diplomatic practice,
particularly those that operated as 'textual ambassadors'; and the
impact of changes in the literary sphere on diplomatic culture. The
literary sphere held such a central place because it gave diplomats
the tools to negotiate the pervasive ambiguities of diplomacy;
simultaneously literary depictions of diplomacy and international
law provided genre-shaped places for cultural reflection on the
rapidly changing and expanding diplomatic sphere. Translations
exemplify the potential of literary texts both to provoke
competition and to promote cultural convergence between political
communities, revealing the existence of diplomatic third spaces in
which ritual, symbolic, or written conventions and semantics
converged despite particular oppositions and differences. The
increasing public consumption of diplomatic material in Europe
illuminates diplomatic and literary communities, and exposes the
translocal, as well as the transnational, geographies of
literary-diplomatic exchanges. Diplomatic texts possessed symbolic
capital. They were produced, archived, and even redeployed in
creative tension with the social and ceremonial worlds that
produced them. Appreciating the generic conventions of specific
types of diplomatic texts can radically reshape our interpretation
of diplomatic encounters, just as exploring the afterlives of
diplomatic records can transform our appreciation of the histories
and literatures they inspired.
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