England's Asian Renaissance

Su Fang Ng (Edited by), Carmen Nocentelli (Edited by), Abdulhamit Arvas (Contributions by), Richmond Barbour (Contributions by), Thea Buckley (Contributions by), Jennifer Feather (Contributions by), Nedda Mehdizadeh (Contributions by), Rachana Sachdev (Contributions by), Amrita Sen (Contributions by), Emily Soon (Contributions by)

9781644532409

Paperback / softback, published 17 December 2021

224 pages, 4 B-W illustrations
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.227 kg

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.

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