England's Asian Renaissance

England's Asian Renaissance: An Introduction

Su Fang Ng and Carmen Nocentelli





Part 1 The Eurasian Continuum



1 The Ottomans in and of Europe

Abdulhamit Arvas



2 Robert Sherley and the Persian Habit

Nedda Mehdizadeh



3 The East India Spice Trade and the Circulation of Shakespearean Imagination

Thea Buckley



Part 2 Religious and Cultural Negotiations



4 Religious Emotion and Racialization: Marlowe's Sigismund and the Making

of Europe

Jennifer Feather



5 Solomon, Ophir, and the English Quest for the East Indies

Amrita Sen



6 Welfare and Work for All: King Lear and Poor Relief in China and Early

Modern England

Rachana Sachdev



Part 3 Making the English Stage Eastern



7 Staging China and India in Jacobean Court Masques: Negotiating Antiquity,

Admiration, and Authority in 1604

Emily Soon



8 Constructing the New Exchange: Jonson's Entertainment at Britain's Bourse

Richmond Barbour



Bibliography



About the Contributors

Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.

• História inglesa e irlandesa
• História da Ásia
• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800
• Industrialização e história industrial
• Início da história moderna: c 1450/1500 a c 1700
• Companheiros literários, resenhas de livros e guias

cultural studies; literary studies; early modern studies; early modern culture; world history; Asian studies; Asian Knowledge; Asian culture; English culture; Eastern themes; Asia; England; East; West; customs; political sovereignty; cultural sovereignty; translation; translatio; cultural exchange; cross-cultural fertilization; linguistic transformation; geographic movement; cultural grafting; convergence; mobility; hybridity