The Far East and the English Imagination, 16001730
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521819442
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Great Britain; East Asian influences; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; British Isles; History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Early modern, 1500-1700; 18th century; Civilization; English literature
First sentence: In 1580, the year that Sir Francis Drake returned from his circumnavigation of the globe, the Portuguese crown passed to Philip II of Spain, and this dynastic union dramatically altered politics and commerce in western Europe.