England's Asian Renaissance

SU FANG NG is a professor of English and the Clifford A. Cutchins III professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. She is the author of Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century England and Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia: Peripheral Empires in the Global Renaissance. CARMEN NOCENTELLI is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She is the author of Empires of Love: Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity, which won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize in Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association and the Roland H. Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference.

  England’s Asian Renaissance: An Introduction                        

Su Fang Ng and Carmen Nocentelli

 

 

Part 1    The Eurasian Continuum

 

1    The Ottomans in and of Europe                           

Abdulhamit Arvas

 

2    Robert Sherley and the Persian Habit                           

Nedda Mehdizadeh

 

3    The East India Spice Trade and the Circulation of Shakespearean Imagination    

Thea Buckley

 

Part 2    Religious and Cultural Negotiations

 

4    Religious Emotion and Racialization: Marlowe’s Sigismund and the Making     

of Europe

Jennifer Feather

 

5    Solomon, Ophir, and the English Quest for the East Indies               

Amrita Sen

 

6    Welfare and Work for All: King Lear and Poor Relief in China and Early         

Modern England

Rachana Sachdev

 

Part 3    Making the English Stage Eastern

 

7    Staging China and India in Jacobean Court Masques: Negotiating Antiquity,    

Admiration, and Authority in 1604

Emily Soon

 

8    Constructing the New Exchange: Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Bourse    

Richmond Barbour

 

Bibliography                                            

 

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