{"product_id":"a-companion-to-the-global-renaissance-isbn-9781118438800","title":"A Companion to the Global Renaissance","description":"Featuring twenty one newly-commissioned essays, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how today's globalization is the result of a complex and lengthy historical process that had its roots in England's mercantile and cross-cultural interactions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn innovative collection that interrogates the global paradigm of our period and offers a new history of globalization by exploring its influences on English culture and literature of the early modern period.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMoves beyond traditional notions of Renaissance history mainly as a revival of antiquity and presents a new perspective on England's mercantile and cross-cultural interactions with the New and Old Worlds of the Americas, Africa, and the East, as well with Northern Europe.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIllustrates how twentieth-century globalization was the result of a lengthy and complex historical process linked to the emergence of capitalism and colonialism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores vital topics such as East-West relations and Islam; visual representations of cultural 'others'; gender and race struggles within the new economies and cultures; global drama on the cosmopolitan English stage, and many more\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Global Renaissance 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJyotsna G. Singh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Mapping the Global 29\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser’s Mammon 31\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDaniel Vitkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 “Travailing” Theory: Global Flows of Labor and the Enclosure of the Subject 50\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCrystal Bartolovich\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Islam and Tamburlaine’s World-picture 67\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Michael Archer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern Period 82\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChloë Houston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: “Contact Zones” 99\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Benefi ts of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel before Empire 101\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrew Hadfield\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 “Apes of Imitation”: Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe’s Embassy to India 114\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNandini Das\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 A Multinational Corporation: Foreign Labor in the London East India Company 129\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichmond Barbour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Where was Iceland in 1600? 149\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMary C. Fuller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 East by North-east: The English among the Russians, 1553–1603 163\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGerald MacLean\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Politics of Identity: William Adams, John Saris, and the English East India Company’s Failure in Japan 178\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCatherine Ryu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns 190\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIan Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Networks of Exchange: Traveling Objects 205\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Guns and Gawds: Elizabethan England’s Infi del Trade 207\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMatthew Dimmock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Cassio, Cash, and the “Infidel 0”: Arithmetic, Double-entry Bookkeeping, and Othello’s Unfaithful Accounts 223\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePatricia Parker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Seeds of Sacrifice: Amaranth, the Gardens of Tenochtitlan and Spenser’s Faerie Queene 242\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdward M. Test\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 “So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous”: The Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern England 262\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStephen Deng\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English Traders in the Canaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 279\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBarbara Sebek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 “The Whole Globe of the Earth”: Almanacs and Their Readers 294\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAdam Smyth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Cesare Vecellio, Venetian Writer and Art-book Cosmopolitan 305\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnn Rosalind Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: The Globe Staged 323\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Bettrice’s Monkey: Staging Exotica in Early Modern London Comedy 325\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJean E. Howard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 The Maltese Factor: The Poetics of Place in The Jew of Malta and The Knight of Malta 340\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eVirginia Mason Vaughan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Local\/Global Pericles: International Storytelling, Domestic Social Relations, Capitalism 355\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Morrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 378\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJyotsna G. Singh\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor at Michigan State University, where she teaches early modern literature and culture, post-colonial theory, translation studies, and gender and race studies. Her published works include \u003ci\u003eColonial Narratives\/Cultural Dialogues: 'Discovery' of India in the Language of Colonialism\u003c\/i\u003e (1996); \u003ci\u003eThe Weyward Sisters: Shakespeare and Feminist Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (co-authored, with Dympna Callaghan and Lorraine Helms, 1994); and \u003ci\u003eTravel Knowledge: European 'Discoveries' in the Early Modern Period\u003c\/i\u003e (co-edited with Ivo Kamps, 2001). She has received several research fellowships, including at the Folger Shakespeare Library,Queen Mary, University of London, and the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.  She has also been invited to direct two workshops on \"Early Modern Anglo Muslim Encounters\" at the Renaissance Center of the Newberry Library, in Chicago.  She is currently working on a monograph on early English Slave Trade. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  The storied achievements of the Renaissance were not simply the result of a cultural rediscovery of shared European classical traditions. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Global Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e presents a more complex perspective that considers England's commercial and cross-cultural interactions with the New and Old Worlds of the Americas, Africa, and the East, as well as with Northern Europe. By illustrating how English culture and literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were shaped by emerging long-distance mercantile, proto-colonial, and cultural economies of exchange, this innovative collection presents a new history of globalization.  \u003cp\u003eAfter introducing globalization's theoretical underpinnings, twenty one newly-commissioned essays collectively illustrate how twentieth-century globalization was the result of a lengthy and complex historical process linked to the emergence of capitalism and colonialism. These wide-ranging chapters examine such topics as England's trading companies and the flow of labor and capital; exploration and cartography; travel and empire; domestic consumerism, money, and material culture; East-West relations and Islam; visual representations and aesthetic theories of and by cultural ‘others’; gender and race struggles within the new economies and cultures; the global dimensions of Renaissance literature; and global drama on the cosmopolitan English stage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith academic rigor and critical authority, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e challenges popular notions of Renaissance history and presents fascinating new insights into the roots of globalization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This volume will provoke students and scholars to think about the Renaissance in much broader, non-European contexts; it contributes valuably to new work on globalization by historicizing the concept.\" \u003ci\u003e(The English Renaissance, 1 September 2011)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This collection is intelligently structured and impressively diverse in both its geographical and intellectual range. Most of all, it is unwaveringly enjoyable and intriguing to read. It must surely become a firm fixture on a wide and interdisciplinary range of student reading lists for the early modern period.\" \u003ci\u003e(Renaissance Studies, November 2010)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988619280613,"sku":"NP9781118438800","price":62.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118438800.jpg?v=1761780997","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-companion-to-the-global-renaissance-isbn-9781118438800","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}