A Companion to the Global Renaissance
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An innovative collection of original essays providing an expansive picture of globalization across the early modern world, now in its second edition
A Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500-1700, Second Edition provides readers with a deeper and more nuanced understanding of both macro and micro perspectives on the commercial and cross-cultural interactions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Covering a uniquely broad range of literary and cultural materials, historical contexts, and geographical regions, the Companion's varied chapters offer interdisciplinary perspectives on the implications of early modern concepts of commerce, material and artistic culture, sexual and cross-racial encounters, conquest and enslavement, social, artistic, and religious cross-pollinations, geographical "discoveries," and more.
Building upon the success of its predecessor, this second edition of A Companion to the Global Renaissance radically extends its scope by moving beyond England and English culture. Newly-commissioned essays investigate intercultural and intra-cultural exchanges, transactions, and encounters involving England, European powers, Eastern kingdoms, Africa, Islamic empires, and the Americas, within cross-disciplinary frameworks. Offering a complex and multifaceted view of early modern globalization, this new edition:
* Demonstrates the continuing global "turn" in Early Modern Studies through original essays exploring interconnected exchanges, transactions, and encounters
* Provides significantly expanded coverage of global interactions involving England, European powers such as Portugal, Spain, and The Netherlands, Eastern empires such as Japan, and the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires
* Includes a Preface and Afterword, as well as a revised and expanded Introduction summarizing the evolving field of Global Early Modern Studies and describing the motifs and methodologies informing the essays within the volume
* Explores an array of new subjects, including an exceptional woman traveler in Eurasia, the Jesuit presence in Mughal India and sixteenth-century Japan, the influence of Mughal art on an Amsterdam painter-cum-poet, the cultural impact of Eastern trade on plays and entertainments in early modern London, Safavid cultural disseminations, English and Portuguese slaving practices, the global contexts of English pattern poetry, and global lyric transmissions across cultures
A wide-ranging account of the global expansions and interactions of the period, A Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500-1700, Second Edition remains essential reading for early modern scholars and students ranging from undergraduate and graduate students to more advanced scholars and specialists in the field.
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Jyotsna G. Singh is a Professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University. She is the author or editor of numerous books including Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues: "Discoveries" of India in the Language of Colonialism; Travel Knowledge: European "Discoveries" in the Early Modern Period (co-ed. Ivo Kamps); Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory, A Companion to the Global Renaissance, and the book series New Transculturalisms, 1400-1800. Professor Singh has received visiting fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Queen Mary University of London, the John Carter Brown Library, and was most recently elected a Visiting Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford University, UK, 2019.
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Bernadette Andrea is Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara; a core faculty in the Center for Middle East Studies; and an affiliate faculty in the Comparative Literature Program and the Department of Feminist Studies. She previously taught at the University of Texas, San Antonio, where she was the Celia Jacobs Endowed Professor in British Literature. She is the author of The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2017) and Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Her critical edition, English Women Staging Islam, 1696-1707 (University of Toronto, CRRS, 2012), was published in the series "The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe." Her coedited collections include Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World, with Patricia Akhimie (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), and Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds, with Linda McJannet (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
John Michael Archer is Professor of English at New York University. He received his BA and MA from the University of Toronto in 1982 and 1983, respectively, and his PhD from Princeton University in 1988. His first book, Sovereignty and Intelligence: Spying and Court Culture in the English Renaissance (Stanford University Press, 1993), discusses the portrayal of political surveillance in the works of Montaigne, Marlowe, Bacon, and other authors. Old Worlds: Egypt, Southwest Asia, India, and Russia in Early Modern English Writing (Stanford University Press, 2001) analyzes European travel writings and literary works by Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden. His third monograph is titled Citizen Shakespeare: Freemen and Aliens in the Language of the Plays (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). It combines recent historiography, philosophical considerations of citizenship, and the close reading of play texts to show how the London citizen and the immigrant city dweller each figure in the action and verbal texture of Shakespeare's drama. The fourth book, Technically Alive: Shakespeare's Sonnets (Palgrave Macmillan) appeared in December 2012. Drawing on Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Agamben, it traces correspondences between philosophical thought about technology and Shakespeare's poetics of human and natural productivity. Recent interests include questions of technology; labor, life, and being as political concepts; rights and duties; and the tension between religion and theology.
Richmond Barbour is Professor of English Literature at Oregon State University. His research engages the material cultures of manuscript, print, and theater in early modern drama, travel writing, and maritime and corporate history. His essays have appeared in Clio, Criticism, Genre, the Huntington Library Quarterly, JEGP, PMLA, and several edited collections. He is the author of Before Orientalism. London's Theatre of the East, 1576-1626 (Cambridge University Press, 2003), The Third Voyage Journals: Writing and Performance in the London East India Company, 1607-1610 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009), and The Loss of the "Trades Increase": An Early Modern Maritime Catastrophe (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). He is currently preparing a critical edition of Capt. John Saris's 1611-1613 East India Company journal, which documents the first English voyage to Japan.
Crystal Bartolovich is Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University, where she teaches a wide range of courses in Marxist theory and cultural studies. With Jean Howard and David Hillman, she is the author of Marx and Freud, Great Shakespeareans (Contiuum, 2012). Her essays have appeared in numerous venues including New Formations, Cultural Critique, Angelaki and Minnesota Review. Her current project is titled "A Natural History of the Commons."
Nandini Das is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford. She works on Renaissance literature and cultural history, with special emphasis on travel and cross-cultural encounters between Europe and Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her publications include Robert Greene's Planetomachia (Ashgate, 2007), Renaissance Romance: The Transformation of English Prose Fiction, 1570-1620 (Ashgate, 2011; republished by Routledge, 2016), Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama coedited with Nick Davis (Routledge, 2017), and the Cambridge History of Travel Writing coedited with Tim Youngs (Cambridge University Press, 2019). She is volume editor of Elizabethan Levant Trade and South Asia in the forthcoming edition of Richard Hakluyt's The Principal Navigations, to be published by Oxford University Press, and project director for the "Travel, Transculturality and Identity in Early Modern England" (TIDE) project, funded by the European Research Council.
Jan de Hond is a curator of the History Department of the Rijksmuseum, where he is responsible for the seventeenth century. He wrote his dissertation on Orientalism in Dutch Culture, 1800-1920. He is specialized in Dutch colonial history and has published on the (cultural) relations between the Dutch Republic and the Moghul Safavid and Ottoman Empire.
Stephen Deng is Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University. He is the author of Coinage and State Formation in Early Modern English Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), editor of A Cultural History of Money in the Renaissance (Bloomsbury, 2019), and coeditor (with Barbara Sebek) of Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550 to 1700 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). He has also written on the literary impacts on transformations in English commercial and colonial culture, c. 1620-1660; on the "new mathematics" and sexuality in Shakespeare's sonnets; and on Sir Edward Coke's translation of English common law and the establishment of a "juristic public" in seventeenth-century England. Currently, he is working on a second monograph tentatively titled "Hamlet and Accountability."
Matthew Dimmock is Professor of Early Modern Studies at the University of Sussex. His research has focused on the interaction of peoples and ideas that took place as a consequence of early modern England's "expansionary thrust" in the late sixteenth century. This research has generated a series of articles and monographs, including New Turkes: Dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2005), Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad (Oxford University Press, 2013), and Elizabethan Globalism (Yale University Press, 2019). It has also involved editorial work, including William Percy's Mahomet and His Heaven: A Critical Edition (Ashgate, 2006), editorial contributions to the Norton Shakespeare 3, and current editorial research for the Oxford Hakluyt and Oxford Nashe projects.
Mary Fuller is Professor of Literature and MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT, where she has served as department head and Associate Chair of the Institute faculty. Her research focuses on early modern English geography and exploration and the related histories of practices, narratives, and material texts as these extend across space and time. She is currently working on a book about Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations of the English Nation (1600) and editing materials on the Northwest Passage for the projected Oxford edition of Hakluyt's compilation. Her publications include Voyages in Print: English Travel to America 1576-1624 (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and Remembering the Early Modern Voyage (Palgrave, 2008) as well as numerous articles and book chapters.
Dr. Masoud "Kasra" Ghorbaninejad earned his PhD in English at Northeastern University, Boston, MA (2018) and, after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Victoria (UVic), Victoria, BC, has worked at UCLA and now at University of Victoria as a digital humanist. He has published on comparative literature, drama and theater, and digital humanities; coauthored with Nathan Gibson and David Joseph Wrisley, "?T?" in Debates in the Digital Humanities 2012 (University of Minnesota Press, 2012); coauthored with Behzad Ghaderi Sohi, "Ali Nassirian and a Modern Iranian 'National' Theatre," Asian Theatre Journal 29.2 (2012): 495-527; coauthored with Behzad Ghaderi Sohi, "Modernity and 'Monstros/city' in Othello and Nassirian's Halu," Persian Literary Studies Journal 1.1 (2012): 7-40; and coauthored with Behzad Ghaderi Sohi, "Peer Gynt and the Cult of Mithras," North-West Passage 5 (2008): 151-159.
Jos J. L. Gommans is Professor of Colonial and Global History at Leiden University. He is the author of two monographs on early-modern south and central Asian history: The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire, 1710-1780, (Oxford University Press, 1999) and Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and High Roads to Empire (Routledge, 2002). An omnibus of his work came out recently as The Indian Frontier: Horse and Warband in the Making of Empires...
