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
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Diplomacy in literature -- History
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Arts and diplomacy -- History
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Literature, Modern -- 15th and 16th centuries -- History and criticism.
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Diplomatic and consular service.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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Literature, Modern
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Diplomacy in literature
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Arts and diplomacy
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Diplomatic and consular service
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Genre/Form |
History
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Sowerby, Tracey Amanda, 1979- editor.
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Craigwood, Joanna, editor.
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ISBN |
9780191873225 |
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0191873225 |
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9780192572622 |
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0192572628 |
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