England's Asian Renaissance / / ed. by Su Fang Ng, Carmen Nocentelli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Arvas, Abdulhamit,; Barbour, Richmond,; Buckley, Thea,; Fang Ng, Su,; Feather, Jennifer,; Mehdizadeh, Nedda,; Nocentelli, Carmen,; Sachdev, Rachana,; Sen, Amrita,; Soon, Emily,
• HerausgeberIn: Ng, Su Fang,; Nocentelli, Carmen,
• Place / Publishing House: Newark : : University of Delaware Press, , [2021]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The Early Modern Exchange
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (223 p.) :; 4 B-W illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments -- Part I The Eurasian Continuum -- 1 The Ottomans in and of Europe -- 2 Robert Sherley and the Persian Habit -- 3 The East India Company Spice Trade and the Circulation of Shakespearean Imagination -- Part II Religious and Cultural Negotiations -- 4 Religious Emotion and Racialization: Marlowe’s Sigismund and the Making of Europe -- 5 Solomon, Ophir, and the English Quest for the East Indies -- 6 Welfare and Work for All: King Lear and Poor Relief in China and Early Modern England -- Part III Making the English Stage Eastern -- 7 Staging China and India in Jacobean Court Masques: Negotiating Antiquity, Admiration, and Authority in 1604 -- 8 Constructing the New Exchange: Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Burse -- Notes on Contributors -- Index