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Featuring twenty one newly–commissioned essays, A Companion tothe Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Eraof Expansion demonstrates how today′s globalization is theresult of a complex and lengthy historical process that had itsroots in England′s mercantile and cross–cultural interactions ofthe sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

An innovative collection that interrogates the global paradigmof our period and offers a new history of globalization byexploring its influences on English culture and literature of theearly modern period.
Moves beyond traditional notions of Renaissance history mainlyas a revival of antiquity and presents a new perspective onEngland′s mercantile and cross–cultural interactions with the Newand Old Worlds of the Americas, Africa, and the East, as well withNorthern Europe.
Illustrates how twentieth–century globalization was the resultof a lengthy and complex historical process linked to the emergenceof capitalism and colonialism
Explores vital topics such as East–West relations and Islam;visual representations of cultural ′others′; gender and racestruggles within the new economies and cultures; global drama onthe cosmopolitan English stage, and many more

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"This volume will provoke students and scholars to think about the Renaissance in much broader, non–European contexts; it contributes valuably to new work on globalization by historicizing the concept." (The English Renaissance, 1 September 2011)

"This collection is intelligently structured and impressively diverse in both its geographical and intellectual range. Most of all, it is unwaveringly enjoyable and intriguing to read. It must surely become a firm fixture on a wide and interdisciplinary range of student reading lists for the early modern period." (Renaissance Studies, November 2010)
From the Back Cover
The storied achievements of the Renaissance were not simply theresult of a cultural rediscovery of shared European classicaltraditions. A Companion to the Global Renaissancepresents a more complex perspective that considers England′scommercial and cross–cultural interactions with the New and OldWorlds of the Americas, Africa, and the East, as well as withNorthern Europe. By illustrating how English culture and literatureof the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were shaped by emerginglong–distance mercantile, proto–colonial, and cultural economies ofexchange, this innovative collection presents a new history ofglobalization.

After introducing globalization′s theoretical underpinnings,twenty one newly–commissioned essays collectively illustrate howtwentieth–century globalization was the result of a lengthy andcomplex historical process linked to the emergence of capitalismand colonialism. These wide–ranging chapters examine such topics asEngland′s trading companies and the flow of labor and capital;exploration and cartography; travel and empire; domesticconsumerism, money, and material culture; East–West relations andIslam; visual representations and aesthetic theories of and bycultural others ; gender and race struggles within thenew economies and cultures; the global dimensions of Renaissanceliterature; and global drama on the cosmopolitan English stage.

With academic rigor and critical authority, A Companion tothe Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Eraof Expansion challenges popular notions of Renaissancehistory and presents fascinating new insights into the roots ofglobalization.

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (23 April 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1118438809
ISBN-13: 978-1118438800