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Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities

By Barbara Fuchs

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
9780511013034, 9780521801027, 0521801028
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
771 kB (789727 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Pages
228\228
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Here the author explores the dynamics of imitation among early modern European powers in literary and historiographical texts from sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Spain, Italy, England, and the New World. The book considers a broad sweep of material, including European representations of New World subjects and of Islam. It supplements the transatlantic perspective on early modern imperialism with an awareness of the situation in the Mediterranean and considers problems of reading and literary transmission; imperial ideology and colonial identities; counterfeits and forgery; and piracy.

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