The Early Modern Exchange

Su Fang Ng, Carmen Nocentelli, Su Fang Ng,Carmen Nocentelli

• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781644532430
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• England’s Asian Renaissance: An Introduction / Su Fang Ng and Carmen Nocentelli
• Part I. The Eurasian Continuum
• Part II. Religious and Cultural Negotiations
• Part III. Making the English Stage Eastern
• Notes on Contributors
• Index