Title Cultures of diplomacy and literary writing in the early modern world / edited by Tracey A. Sowerby and Joanna Craigwood

Edition First edition Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 283 pages) : illustrations (some color) Contents Introduction: literary and diplomatic cultures in the early modern world -- I. Literary engagements -- The place of the literary in European diplomacy: origin myths in ambassadorial handbooks -- Distinguished visitors: literary genre and diplomatic space in Shakespeare, Calderón, and Proust -- Lines of amity: the law of nations in the Americas -- Diplomatic pathos: Sidney's brazen fictions and the troubled origins of international law -- II. Translation -- Translation and communication: war and peace by other means -- The politics of translation: The Lusiads and European diplomacy (1580-1664) -- Translation and cultural convergence in late sixteenth-century Scotland and Huguenot France -- III. Dissemination -- Books as diplomatic agentss: Milton in Sweden -- Diplomatic knowledge on display: foreign affairs in the early modern English public sphere -- A diplomatic narrative in the archive: the War of Cyprus, record keeping practices, and historical research in the early modern Venetian Chancery -- IV. Diplomatic documents -- Textual ambassadors and ambassadorial texts: literary representation and diplomatic practice in George Turberville's and Thomas Randolph's accounts of Russia (1568-9) -- Diplomatic writing as aristocratic self-fashioning: French ambassadors in Constantinople -- Negotiating with the material text: royal correspondence between England and the wider world -- Ritual practice and textual representations: free imperial cities in the society of princes Summary This interdisciplinary edited collection explores the relationship between literature and diplomacy in the early modern world and studies how texts played an integral part in diplomatic practice Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on May 28, 2020) Subject Diplomatic and consular service -- History Diplomacy in literature -- History Arts and diplomacy -- History Literature, Modern -- 15th and 16th centuries -- History and criticism. Diplomatic and consular service. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. Literature, Modern Diplomacy in literature Arts and diplomacy Diplomatic and consular service Genre/Form History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Sowerby, Tracey Amanda, 1979- editor. Craigwood, Joanna, editor. ISBN 9780191873225 0191873225 9780192572622 0192572628

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