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Book SynopsisA COMPANION TO THE GLOBAL RENAISSANCE 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, 15001700, 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
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgments xviii
Preface xix
Introduction: The Global Renaissance xxiv
Jyotsna G. Singh
Part I: Mapping the Global 1
1 The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser’s Mammon 3
Daniel Vitkus
2 “Travailing” Theory: Global Flows of Labor and the Enclosure of the Subject 22
Crystal Bartolovich
3 Islam and Tamburlaine’s World-Picture 37
John Michael Archer
4 Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern Period 50
Chloë Houston
5 Understanding Slavery in Early Modern Asia: Jesuit Scholarship from Seventeenth-Century Iberia and Asia 64
Stuart M. McManus
Part II: “Contact Zones” 79
6 “Apes of Imitation”: Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe’s Embassy to India 81
Nandini Das
7 Early Modern European Encounters with Japan: Luis Frois and Engelbert Kaempfer 95
Mihoko Suzuki
8 Other Renaissances, Multiple Easts, and Eurasian Borderlands: Teresa Sampsonia Sherley’s Journey from Persia to Poland, 1608–1611 115
Bernadette Andrea
9 Becoming Mughal, Becoming Dom João de Távora: Friendship, Dissimulation, and Manipulation in Jesuit and Mughal Exchanges 130
João Vicente Melo
10 The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns 149
Ian Smith
11 The Benefits of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel Before Empire 162
Andrew Hadfield
12 The Politics of Identity: Reassessing Global Encounters Through the Failure of the English East India Company in Japan 173
Catherine Ryu
13 Placing Iceland 184
Mary C. Fuller
14 East by Northeast: The English Among the Russians, 1553–1603 197
Gerald MacLean
15 Connected Political Imaginaries: The Shaˉhnaˉmah and Anglo-Persian Alliance Building, 1599–1628 210
Masoud Ghorbaninejad
Part III: “To Live by Traffic”: Global Networks of Exchange 229
16 The Unseen World of Willem Schellinks: Local Milieu and Global Circulation in the Visualization of Mughal India 231
Jos Gommans and Jan de Hond
17 Hakluyt’s Books and Hawkins’ Slaving Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the English National Imaginary, 1560–1600 249
Jyotsna G. Singh
18 Guns and Gawds: Elizabethan England’s “Infidel” Trade 276
Matthew Dimmock
19 Seeds of Sacrifice: Amaranth, The Gardens of Tenochtitlan, and Spenser’s Faerie Queene 290
Edward M. Test
20 “So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous”: The Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern England 305
Stephen Deng
21 Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English Traders in the Canaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 319
Barbara Sebek
22 “The Whole Globe of the Earth”: Almanacs and Their Readers 332
Adam Smyth
23 Cesare Vecellio, Venetian Writer and Art-Book Cosmopolitan 341
Ann Rosalind Jones
24 A Multinational Corporation: Labor and Ethnicity in the London East India Company 360
Richmond Barbour
25 Patterning the Tatar Girl in George Puttenham’s The Art of English Poesie (1589) 377
Ladan Niayesh
Part IV: The Globe Staged 387
26 Bettrice’s Monkey: Staging Exotica in Early Modern London Comedy 389
Jean E. Howard
27 The Maltese Factor: The Poetics of Place in The Jew of Malta and The Knight of Malta 402
Virginia Mason Vaughan
28 Local–Global Pericles: International Storytelling, Domestic Social Relations, Capitalism 415
David Morrow
29 Staging the Global in the Street: Spices, London Companies, and Thomas Middleton’s The Triumphs of Honor and Industry 433
Amrita Sen
Afterword: Lyric Poetics for the Global Renaissance 447
Ayesha Ramachandran
Index 457
