Fictions of embassy : literature and diplomacy in early modern Europe

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

Historians of early modern Europe have long stressed how new practices of diplomacy that emerged during the period transformed European politics. Fictions of Embassy is the first book to examine the cultural implications of the rise of modern.

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Main Author: Hampton, Timothy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009
Subjects:
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.
Europe > Foreign relations.
Europe > Politics and government > 1492-1648.
Europe > Politics and government > 1648-1789.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.

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