The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia

DEBRA JOHANYAK Professor of English, University of Akron (Wayne College), USA. WALTER S. H. LIM Associate Professor of English Literature, National University of Singapore.

Introduction: The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia Framing the Issues; W.S.H.Lim Persia, Tartaria, and Pamphilia: Ideas of Asia in Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania, Part II; B.Andrea Romancing the Turk: Trade, Race, and Nation in Spenser's The Faerie Queene; M.Hollings 'Turning Turk,' Early Modern English Orientalism, and Shakespeare's Othello; D.Johanyak Indian and Amazon: The Oriental Feminine in A Midsummer Night's Dream; J.W.Stone Marlowe's Asia and the Feminization of Conquest; L.Hopkins As Good as Gold: India, Akbar the Great, and Marlowe's Tamburlaine Plays; B.Malieckal Westward to the Orient: The Specter of Scientific China in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis; G.Li Sui Object Protocols: The 'Materials' of Early English Encounters with India; P.K.Nayar John Milton, Orientalism, and the Empires of the East in Paradise Lost; W.S.H.Lim