Title Fictions of embassy : literature and diplomacy in early modern Europe / Timothy Hampton

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 235 pages) Contents Introduction : angels and pimps : toward a diplomatic poetics -- Words and deeds : diplomacy and humanist fiction -- The useful and the honorable : the ethics of mediation in the late Renaissance -- Epic and the law of nations : Tasso's Jerusalem delivered -- From Cortez to Camões : identity and authority in the discourse of discovery -- Big states and small states : sovereignty, diplomatic recognition, and the theater of Pierre Corneille -- Hamlet's diplomacy : state-building, dispatch, and revenge -- The tragedy of delegation : diplomatic action and tragic form in Racine's Andromaque -- Conclusion : in the Hôtel des Ambassadeurs Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism European literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism Diplomacy in literature. International relations in literature. Politics and literature -- Europe -- History Diplomacy -- History LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General. Diplomacy Diplomacy in literature Diplomatic relations European literature European literature -- Renaissance International relations in literature Politics and government Politics and literature Politische Kultur Motiv Kulturkontakt Motiv Literatur Diplomatie Motiv Diplomatische Beziehungen SUBJECT Europe -- Foreign relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045680 Europe -- Politics and government -- 1492-1648. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045736 Europe -- Politics and government -- 1648-1789. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045740 Subject Europe Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780801458712 0801458714

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