Fictions of embassy
Subtitle: literature and diplomacy in early modern Europe
By: Timothy Hampton.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780801447754
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : angels and pimps : toward a diplomatic poetics; title: Words and deeds : diplomacy and humanist fiction; title: The useful and the honorable : the ethics of mediation in the late Renaissance; title: Epic and the law of nations : Tasso's Jerusalem delivered; title: From Cortez to Camões : identity and authority in the discourse of discovery; title: Big states and small states : sovereignty, diplomatic recognition, and the theater of Pierre Corneille; title: Hamlet's diplomacy : state-building, dispatch, and revenge; title: The tragedy of delegation : diplomatic action and tragic form in Racine's Andromaque; title: Conclusion : in the Hôtel des Ambassadeurs.