Fictions of embassy : literature and diplomacy in early modern Europe / Timothy Hampton.

Author/creator Hampton, Timothy
Format Book
Publication InfoIthaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Descriptionxi, 235 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600. --History and criticism.
European literature--17th century. --History and criticism.
Diplomacy in literature.
International relations in literature.
Politics and literature--Europe. --History.
Diplomacy--History.
Europe--Foreign relations.
Europe--Politics and government. --1492-1648.
Europe--Politics and government. --1648-1789.

Contents Introduction : angels and pimps : toward a diplomatic poetics -- Words and deeds : diplomacy and humanist fiction -- The useful and the honorable : the ethics of mediation in the late Renaissance -- Epic and the law of nations : Tasso's Jerusalem delivered -- From Cortez to Camões : identity and authority in the discourse of discovery -- Big states and small states : sovereignty, diplomatic recognition, and the theater of Pierre Corneille -- Hamlet's diplomacy : state-building, dispatch, and revenge -- The tragedy of delegation : diplomatic action and tragic form in Racine's Andromaque -- Conclusion : in the Hôtel des Ambassadeurs.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and index.
LCCN 2008043684
ISBN9780801447754 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0801447755 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN 56.D55 H36 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold