England’s Asian Renaissance

England's Asian Renaissance examines the often-subtle ways in which Asian cultures inflected the literature of early modern England, with an eye toward patterns of cross-cultural fertilization, mediation, and convergence. The collection moves away from hegemonic narratives of English cultural and political sovereignty to underscore the radically mobile nature of early modern culture.

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                                               About the Contributors