RT Book
T1 Fictions of embassy: literature and diplomacy in early modern Europe
A1 Hampton, Timothy
LA English
PP Ithaca, NY u.a.
PB Cornell Univ. Press
YR 2009
ED 1. publ.
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/583190243
AB Introduction : angels and pimps : toward a diplomatic poetics -- Words and deeds : diplomacy and humanist fiction -- The useful and the honorable : the ethics of mediation in the late Renaissance -- Epic and the law of nations : Tasso's Jerusalem delivered -- From Cortez to Camões : identity and authority in the discourse of discovery -- Big states and small states : sovereignty, diplomatic recognition, and the theater of Pierre Corneille -- Hamlet's diplomacy : state-building, dispatch, and revenge -- The tragedy of delegation : diplomatic action and tragic form in Racine's Andromaque -- Conclusion : in the Hôtel des Ambassadeurs
NO Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP
CN a
SN 978-0-8014-4775-4
SN 0-8014-4775-5
K1 European literature : Renaissance, 1450-1600 : History and criticism
K1 European literature : 17th century : History and criticism
K1 Diplomacy in literature
K1 International relations in literature
K1 Politics and literature : Europe : History
K1 Diplomacy : History
K1 Europe : Foreign relations
K1 Europe : Politics and government : 1492-1648
K1 Europe : Politics and government : 1648-1789