Mimesis and Empire : The New World, Islam, and European Identities (Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Vol. 40)
Mimesis and Empire : The New World, Islam, and European Identities (Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Vol. 40) | Rare and modern books | Fuchs, Barbara
Mimesis and Empire : The New World, Islam, and European Identities (Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Vol. 40)
Mimesis and Empire : The New World, Islam, and European Identities (Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Vol. 40) | Rare and modern books | Fuchs, Barbara
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- Author
- Fuchs, Barbara
- Publishers
- Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2001
- Cover description
- Fine
- Binding description
- H
- Dust jacket
- True
- State of preservation
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
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1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/F. xii+211pp, index, a nice fine as new copy. mimesis can effect inclusion in a polity, threaten state legitimacy, or undo the originality upon which such legitimacy is based. In Mimesis and Empire Barbara Fuchs explores the intricate dynamics of imitation and contradistinction 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, both portrayed as 'other' in contemporary texts. 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.
