England's Asian Renaissance

by Su Fang Ng (Editor), Carmen Nocentelli (Editor), Abdulhamit Arvas (Contribution by), Richmond Barbour (Contribution by), Thea Buckley (Contribution by)

Overview

England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the English language, Eastern themes, characters, and motifs helped shape the country's culture and contributed to its national identity. Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a capacious understanding of translatio as geographic movement, linquistic transformation, and cultural grafting, the collection gives pride of place to convergence, approximation, and hybridity, thus underscoring the radical mobility of early modern culture. In so doing, England's Asian Renaissance also moves away from entrenched narratives of Western cultural sovereignty to think anew England's debts to Asia.

Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781644532423
Publisher:	University of Delaware Press
Publication date:	12/17/2021
Series:	The Early Modern Exchange
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

SU FANG NG is a professor of English and the Clifford A. Cutchins III professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. She is the author of Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century England and Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia: Peripheral Empires in the Global Renaissance.

CARMEN NOCENTELLI is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She is the author of Empires of Love: Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity, which won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize in Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association and the Roland H. Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference.

Table of Contents

England’s Asian Renaissance: An Introduction                        

Su Fang Ng and Carmen Nocentelli

 

 

Part 1    The Eurasian Continuum

 

1    The Ottomans in and of Europe                           

Abdulhamit Arvas

 

2    Robert Sherley and the Persian Habit                           

Nedda Mehdizadeh

 

3    The East India Spice Trade and the Circulation of Shakespearean Imagination    

Thea Buckley

 

Part 2    Religious and Cultural Negotiations

 

4    Religious Emotion and Racialization: Marlowe’s Sigismund and the Making     

of Europe

Jennifer Feather

 

5    Solomon, Ophir, and the English Quest for the East Indies               

Amrita Sen

 

6    Welfare and Work for All: King Lear and Poor Relief in China and Early         

Modern England

Rachana Sachdev

 

Part 3    Making the English Stage Eastern

 

7    Staging China and India in Jacobean Court Masques: Negotiating Antiquity,    

Admiration, and Authority in 1604

Emily Soon

 

8    Constructing the New Exchange: Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Bourse    

Richmond Barbour

 

Bibliography                                            

 

About the Contributors