
A Companion to the Global Renaissance
English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion
Jyotsna G. Singh(Editor)
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 7. April 2009
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Hardback
424 pages
978-1-4051-5476-5 (ISBN)
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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 colonialism
* Explores 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
* 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 colonialism
* Explores 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
Reviews / Votes
"This volume will provoke students and scholars to think about the Renaissance in much broader, non-European contexts; it contributes valuably to new work on globalization by historicizing the concept." (The English Renaissance, 1 September 2011) "This collection is intelligently structured and impressively diverse in both its geographical and intellectual range. Most of all, it is unwaveringly enjoyable and intriguing to read. It must surely become a firm fixture on a wide and interdisciplinary range of student reading lists for the early modern period." (Renaissance Studies, November 2010)More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 25 cm
Width: 18 cm
Thickness: 3.6 cm
Weight
886 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-5476-5 (9781405154765)
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Jyotsna G. Singh is a Professor at Michigan State University, where she teaches early modern literature and culture, post-colonial theory, and gender and race studies. Her published works include Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues: 'Discovery' of India in the Language of Colonialism (1996); The Weyward Sisters: Shakespeare and Feminist Politics (co-authored, with Dympna Callaghan and Lorraine Helms, 1994); and Travel Knowledge: European 'Discoveries' in the Early Modern Period (co-edited with Ivo Kamps, 2001). She has received several research fellowships, including at the Folger Shakespeare Library and Queen Mary, University of London.
Content
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Global Renaissance: Jyotsna Singh Michigan State University)
Part I: Mapping the Global
Part II: "Contact Zones"
Part III: Networks of Exchange: Traveling Objects
Part IV: The Globe Staged
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Global Renaissance: Jyotsna Singh Michigan State University)
Part I: Mapping the Global
Part II: "Contact Zones"
Part III: Networks of Exchange: Traveling Objects
Part IV: The Globe Staged