{"product_id":"a-companion-to-the-global-renaissance-isbn-9781119626268","title":"A Companion to the Global Renaissance","description":"\u003cb\u003eA COMPANION TO THE GLOBAL RENAISSANCE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn innovative collection of original essays providing an expansive picture of globalization across the early modern world, now in its second edition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500–1700, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eCompanion’s\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilding upon the success of its predecessor, this second edition of \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Global Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e radically extends its scope by moving beyond England and English culture. Newly-commissioned essays investigate intercultural and intra-cultural exchanges, transactions, and encounters involving England, European powers, Eastern kingdoms, Africa, Islamic empires, and the Americas, within cross-disciplinary frameworks. Offering a complex and multifaceted view of early modern globalization, this new edition:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDemonstrates the continuing global “turn” in Early Modern Studies through original essays exploring interconnected exchanges, transactions, and encounters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvides significantly expanded coverage of global interactions involving England, European powers such as Portugal, Spain, and The Netherlands, Eastern empires such as Japan, and the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes a Preface and Afterword, as well as a revised and expanded Introduction summarizing the evolving field of Global Early Modern Studies and describing the motifs and methodologies informing the essays within the volume\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplores an array of new subjects, including an exceptional woman traveler in Eurasia, the Jesuit presence in Mughal India and sixteenth-century Japan, the influence of Mughal art on an Amsterdam painter-\u003ci\u003ecum\u003c\/i\u003e-poet, the cultural impact of Eastern trade on plays and entertainments in early modern London, Safavid cultural disseminations, English and Portuguese slaving practices, the global contexts of English pattern poetry, and global lyric transmissions across cultures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wide-ranging account of the global expansions and interactions of the period, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500–1700, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e remains essential reading for early modern scholars and students ranging from undergraduate and graduate students to more advanced scholars and specialists in the field. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xviii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Global Renaissance xxiv\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJyotsna G. Singh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Mapping the Global 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser’s Mammon 3\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 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrystal Bartolovich\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Islam and Tamburlaine’s World-Picture 37\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Michael Archer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern Period 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChloë Houston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Understanding Slavery in Early Modern Asia: Jesuit Scholarship from Seventeenth-Century Iberia and Asia 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStuart M. McManus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: “Contact Zones” 79\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 “Apes of Imitation”: Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe’s Embassy to India 81\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNandini Das\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Early Modern European Encounters with Japan: Luis Frois and Engelbert Kaempfer 95\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMihoko Suzuki\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Other Renaissances, Multiple Easts, and Eurasian Borderlands: Teresa Sampsonia Sherley’s Journey from Persia to Poland, 1608–1611 115\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBernadette Andrea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Becoming Mughal, Becoming \u003ci\u003eDom \u003c\/i\u003eJoão de Távora: Friendship, Dissimulation, and Manipulation in Jesuit and Mughal Exchanges 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoão Vicente Melo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns 149\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIan Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Benefits of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel Before Empire 162\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Hadfield\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Politics of Identity: Reassessing Global Encounters Through the Failure of the English East India Company in Japan 173\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCatherine Ryu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Placing Iceland 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary C. Fuller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 East by Northeast: The English Among the Russians, 1553–1603 197\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGerald MacLean\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Connected Political Imaginaries: The \u003ci\u003eShaˉhnaˉmah \u003c\/i\u003eand Anglo-Persian Alliance Building, 1599–1628 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMasoud Ghorbaninejad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: “To Live by Traffic”: Global Networks of Exchange 229\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 The Unseen World of Willem Schellinks: Local Milieu and Global Circulation in the Visualization of Mughal India 231\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJos Gommans and Jan de Hond\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Hakluyt’s Books and Hawkins’ Slaving Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the English National Imaginary, 1560–1600 249\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJyotsna G. Singh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Guns and Gawds: Elizabethan England’s “Infidel” Trade 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMatthew Dimmock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Seeds of Sacrifice: Amaranth, The Gardens of Tenochtitlan, and Spenser’s \u003ci\u003eFaerie Queene \u003c\/i\u003e290\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdward M. Test\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 “So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous”: The Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern England 305\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Deng\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English Traders in the Canaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 319\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarbara Sebek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 “The Whole Globe of the Earth”: Almanacs and Their Readers 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdam Smyth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Cesare Vecellio, Venetian Writer and Art-Book Cosmopolitan 341\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnn Rosalind Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 A Multinational Corporation: Labor and Ethnicity in the London East India Company 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichmond Barbour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Patterning the Tatar Girl in George Puttenham’s \u003ci\u003eThe Art of English Poesie \u003c\/i\u003e(1589) 377\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLadan Niayesh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: The Globe Staged 387\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Bettrice’s Monkey: Staging Exotica in Early Modern London Comedy 389\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJean E. Howard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 The Maltese Factor: The Poetics of Place in \u003ci\u003eThe Jew of Malta \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Knight of Malta \u003c\/i\u003e402\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVirginia Mason Vaughan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Local–Global \u003ci\u003ePericles\u003c\/i\u003e: International Storytelling, Domestic Social Relations, Capitalism 415\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Morrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Staging the Global in the Street: Spices, London Companies, and Thomas Middleton’s \u003ci\u003eThe Triumphs of Honor and Industry \u003c\/i\u003e433\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmrita Sen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword: Lyric Poetics for the Global Renaissance 447\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAyesha Ramachandran\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 457\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJyotsna G. Singh\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University. She is the author or editor of numerous books including \u003ci\u003eColonial Narratives\/Cultural Dialogues: “Discoveries” of India in the Language of Colonialism; Travel Knowledge: European “Discoveries” in the Early Modern Period\u003c\/i\u003e (co-ed. Ivo Kamps); \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Postcolonial Theory, A Companion to the Global Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e, and the book series \u003ci\u003eNew Transculturalisms, 1400–1800\u003c\/i\u003e. Professor Singh has received visiting fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Queen Mary University of London, the John Carter Brown Library, and was most recently elected a Visiting Fellow at St Catherine’s College, Oxford University, UK, 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn innovative collection of original essays providing an expansive picture of globalization across the early modern world, now in its second edition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500–1700, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eCompanion’s\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilding upon the success of its predecessor, this second edition of \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Global Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e radically extends its scope by moving beyond England and English culture. Newly-commissioned essays investigate intercultural and intra-cultural exchanges, transactions, and encounters involving England, European powers, Eastern kingdoms, Africa, Islamic empires, and the Americas, within cross-disciplinary frameworks. Offering a complex and multifaceted view of early modern globalization, this new edition:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDemonstrates the continuing global “turn” in Early Modern Studies through original essays exploring interconnected exchanges, transactions, and encounters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvides significantly expanded coverage of global interactions involving England, European powers such as Portugal, Spain, and The Netherlands, Eastern empires such as Japan, and the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes a Preface and Afterword, as well as a revised and expanded Introduction summarizing the evolving field of Global Early Modern Studies and describing the motifs and methodologies informing the essays within the volume\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplores an array of new subjects, including an exceptional woman traveler in Eurasia, the Jesuit presence in Mughal India and sixteenth-century Japan, the influence of Mughal art on an Amsterdam painter-\u003ci\u003ecum\u003c\/i\u003e-poet, the cultural impact of Eastern trade on plays and entertainments in early modern London, Safavid cultural disseminations, English and Portuguese slaving practices, the global contexts of English pattern poetry, and global lyric transmissions across cultures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wide-ranging account of the global expansions and interactions of the period, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500–1700, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e remains essential reading for early modern scholars and students ranging from undergraduate and graduate students to more advanced scholars and specialists in the field.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988619641061,"sku":"NP9781119626268","price":210.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119626268.jpg?v=1761780998","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-companion-to-the-global-renaissance-isbn-9781119626268","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}