Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Singh, Jyotsna G., 1951- editor. | John Wiley & Sons, Inc., publisher.
Title: A Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500 – 1700 / edited by Jyotsna G. Singh.
Other titles: Blackwell companions to literature and culture
Description: Second edition. | Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021. | Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020047943 (print) | LCCN 2020047944 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119626268 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119626275 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119626251 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119626299 (epub) | ISBN 9781119626282 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: English literature–Early modern, 1500-1700–History and criticism. | Globalization in literature. | Literature and society. | Renaissance–England.
Classification: LCC DA320 .C656 2021 (print) | LCC DA320 (ebook) | DDC 909/.5–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020047943
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020047944
Cover image: Abu’l Hasan / Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Purchase – Charles Lang Freer Endowment, F1945.9a
Cover design by Wiley
Set in 10.5/12.5, ITGaramond LT Std by Integra Software Services, Pondicherry, India.
Contents
1 Cover
8 Preface
9 Introduction: The Global Renaissance
10 Part I: Mapping the Global Chapter 1: The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser’s Mammon Chapter 2: “Travailing” Theory: Global Flows of Labor and the Enclosure of the Subject Chapter 3: Islam and Tamburlaine’s World-Picture Chapter 4: Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern Period Chapter 5: Understanding Slavery in Early Modern Asia: Jesuit Scholarship from Seventeenth-Century Iberia and Asia
11 Part II: “Contact Zones” Chapter 6: “Apes of Imitation”: Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe’s Embassy to India Chapter 7: Early Modern European Encounters with Japan: Luis Frois and Engelbert Kaempfer Chapter 8: Other Renaissances, Multiple Easts, and Eurasian Borderlands: Teresa Sampsonia Sherley’s Journey from Persia to Poland, 1608–1611 Chapter 9: Becoming Mughal, Becoming Dom João de Távora: Friendship, Dissimulation, and Manipulation in Jesuit and Mughal Exchanges Chapter 10: The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns Chapter 11: The Benefits of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel Before Empire Chapter 12: The Politics of Identity: Reassessing Global Encounters Through the Failure of the English East India Company in Japan Chapter 13: Placing Iceland Chapter 14: East by Northeast: The English Among the Russians, 1553–1603 Chapter 15: Connected Political Imaginaries: The Shaˉhnaˉmah and Anglo-Persian Alliance Building, 1599–1628
12 Part III: “To Live by Traffic”: Global Networks of Exchange Chapter 16: The Unseen World of Willem Schellinks: Local Milieu and Global Circulation in the Visualization of Mughal India Chapter 17: Hakluyt’s Books and Hawkins’ Slaving Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the English National Imaginary, 1560–1600 Chapter 18: Guns and Gawds: Elizabethan England’s “Infidel” Trade Chapter 19: Seeds of Sacrifice: Amaranth, The Gardens of Tenochtitlan, and Spenser’s Faerie Queene Chapter 20: “So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous”: The Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern England Chapter 21: Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English Traders in the Canaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Chapter 22: “The Whole Globe of the Earth”: Almanacs and Their Readers Chapter 23: Cesare Vecellio, Venetian Writer and Art-Book Cosmopolitan Chapter 24: A Multinational Corporation: Labor and Ethnicity in the London East India Company Chapter 25: Patterning the Tatar Girl in George Puttenham’s The Art of English Poesie (1589)