England's Asian Renaissance
224 pages, 6 x 9
4 B-W illustrations
Paperback
Release Date:17 Dec 2021
ISBN:9781644532409
Hardcover
Release Date:17 Dec 2021
ISBN:9781644532416
England's Asian Renaissance
Edited by Su Fang Ng and Carmen Nocentelli
SERIES:
The Early Modern Exchange
University of Delaware Press
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.
Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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.
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.
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
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
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