England's Asian Renaissance examines the often-subtle ways in which Asian cultures inflected the literature of early modern England, with an eye toward patterns of cross-cultural fertilization, mediation, and convergence. The collection moves away from hegemonic narratives of English cultural and political sovereignty to underscore the radically mobile nature of early modern culture.
England's Asian Renaissance examines the often-subtle ways in which Asian cultures inflected the literature of early modern England, with an eye toward patterns of cross-cultural fertilization, mediation, and convergence. The collection moves away from hegemonic narratives of English cultural and political sovereignty to underscore the radically mobile nature of early modern culture.
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.
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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
