Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Barbara Fuchs; Emily Weissbourd

Published by University of Toronto Press 2015

Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Barbara Fuchs and Emily Weissbourd

In the series UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442619265

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About this book

Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires.

Author / Editor information

Fuchs Barbara :

Barbara Fuchs is a professor of Spanish and English at UCLA.
Weissbourd Emily :

Emily Weissbourd is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of English at Bryn Mawr College.

Reviews

Dale Shuger:

‘This volume is a worthwhile read for scholars of early modern empire… Well-researched, well-supported, well-written case studies that offer food for thought and future scholarship.’

Lindsay Sidders:

‘This collection presents a great example of interdisciplinary synergy and verve. Advanced undergraduates and graduate students and scholars alike will benefit from its method and goals.’

Viviana Tagliaferri:

‘A fresh contribution to current scholarship on Mediterranean as a conceptual space… The multi-scale analysis reaches the editors’ goal of producing a nuanced and articulated picture of cross-religious interaction in the central-east Mediterranean.’

Goran Stanivukovic, Department of English, Saint Mary’s University:

“Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean makes a significant contribution to the growing area of Mediterranean studies in early modern criticism from a comparative perspective, bringing together new case studies that expand the archive of texts and evidence in this area.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE: ENVISIONING EMPIRE IN THE OLD WORLD
1. Mediterranean Borderlands and the Global Early Modern Ania Loomba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. Mapping Trans-Imperial Ottoman Space: Alterity and Attraction Palmira Brummett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3. Europe’s Turkish Nemesis Larry Silver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
4. Imperial Succession and Mirrors of Tyranny in the Houses of Habsburg and Osman Carina L. Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
5. “The ruin and slaughter of … fellow Christians”: The French as Threat to Christendom in Spanish Assertions of Sovereignty in Italy, 1479–1516 Andrew W. Devereux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
6. Memories of War at Home and Abroad: The Story of Juan Latino’s Austrias Carmen Elizabeth R. Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
7. Imperial Anxiety, the Roman Mirror, and the Neapolitan Academy of the Duke of Medinaceli, 1696–1701 Thomas Dandelet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
PART TWO: IMAGINING THE MEDITERRANEAN IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
8. The Meta-Theatrical Mediterranean: Theatrical Contrivance and Miraculous Reunion in The Travels of the Three English Brothers, The Four Prentices of London , and Pericles Jane Hwang Degenhardt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
9. Copying “the Anti-Spaniard”: Post-Armada Hispanophobia and English Renaissance Drama Eric Griffin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
10. Spain and the Rhetoric of Imperial Rivalry in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi Emily Weissbourd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
11. Catholics and Cosmopolitans Writing the Nation: The Pope’s Scholars and the 1579 Student Rebellion at the English Roman College Brian C. Lockey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
12. Viewing Spain through Darkened Eyes: Anti-Spanish Rhetoric and Charles Cornwallis’s Mission to Spain, 1605–1609 William S. Goldman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 296
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 12
- Other: 12 b&w illustrations

eBook

Published: March 17, 2015
ISBN: 9781442619265