The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia [electronic resource] /
Johanyak, D.author.
Lim, W.author.
This unique collection of essays examines the complex significations of 'Asia' in the literary and cultural production of Early Modern England. Contributors come from a range of backgrounds to bring a range of perspectives to this topic.
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Cover; Contents; Introduction: The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia-Framing the Issues; 1 Persia, Tartaria, and Pamphilia: Ideas of Asia in Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania, Part II; 2 Romancing the Turk: Trade, Race, and Nation in Spenser's The Faerie Queene; 3 "Turning Turk," Early Modern English Orientalism, and Shakespeare's Othello; 4 Indian and Amazon: The Oriental Feminine in A Midsummer Night's Dream; 5 Marlowe's Asia and the Feminization of Conquest; 6 As Good as Gold: India, Akbar the Great, and Marlowe's Tamburlaine Plays
7 Westward to the Orient: The Specter of Scientific China in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis8 Object Protocols: The "Materials" of Early English Encounters with India; 9 John Milton, Orientalism, and the Empires of the East in Paradise Lost; Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This unique collection of essays examines the complex significations of 'Asia' in the literary and cultural production of Early Modern England. Contributors come from a range of backgrounds to bring a range of perspectives to this topic.
Literature, Modern.
Literature   .
British literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
British and Irish Literature.