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Shows how Renaissance writers and artists struggled to reconcile past traditions with experiences of 'discovery'.

Table of Contents
Series Editors' Preface List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Timeline 1 Exploring the Terrain Renaissance Anti-colonialisms Imperial Translations Cannibals Gender and Race Difference and Repetition 2 Debates Texts and Contexts Tempestuous Histories Postcolonial Reactivations of The Tempest Theory after Shakespeare Others and Selves Ireland: Civilised Selves and Barbarous Others Spain and Turkey: Protestantism and its Others Thinking Differently about Others: Olearius' Travels 3 Case Studies Two Ways of Looking at Colonial Beginnings Unfinished Histories: Gil Vicente's Auto da India History as Myth: Luis Vaz de Camoes' Os Lusiadas Two Ways of Writing the Heathen Writing the New World Native: de Bry's America I Writing the Chinese: de Bry's India Orientalis II The Brome-an Empire: Wonder and Theatre in The Antipodes Can't Buy me Love: John Donne's "Loves Progress" Revolutions that Have No Model: Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great Primary Works Cited Secondary Works Cited Further Reading Index

Renaissance Literatures and Postcolonial Studies

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      Publisher Edinburgh University Press
      Published 13 June 2011
      ISBN-13 9780748636839
      978-0748636839
      ISBN-10 0748636838
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      Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Shows how Renaissance writers and artists struggled to reconcile past traditions with experiences of 'discovery'.

      Table of Contents
      Series Editors' Preface List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Timeline 1 Exploring the Terrain Renaissance Anti-colonialisms Imperial Translations Cannibals Gender and Race Difference and Repetition 2 Debates Texts and Contexts Tempestuous Histories Postcolonial Reactivations of The Tempest Theory after Shakespeare Others and Selves Ireland: Civilised Selves and Barbarous Others Spain and Turkey: Protestantism and its Others Thinking Differently about Others: Olearius' Travels 3 Case Studies Two Ways of Looking at Colonial Beginnings Unfinished Histories: Gil Vicente's Auto da India History as Myth: Luis Vaz de Camoes' Os Lusiadas Two Ways of Writing the Heathen Writing the New World Native: de Bry's America I Writing the Chinese: de Bry's India Orientalis II The Brome-an Empire: Wonder and Theatre in The Antipodes Can't Buy me Love: John Donne's "Loves Progress" Revolutions that Have No Model: Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great Primary Works Cited Secondary Works Cited Further Reading Index

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