A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion
List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: The Global Renaissance: Jyotsna Singh (Michigan StateUniversity) Part I: Mapping the Global: 1. The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser's Mammon: Daniel Vitkus (Florida State University) 2. "Travailing" Theory: Global Flows of Labor and the Enclosure of the Subject: Crystal Bartolovich (Syracuse University) 3. Islam and Tamburlaine 's World picture: John Michael Archer (New York University) 4. Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern Period: Chloe Houston (University of Reading) Part II: "Contact Zones" 5. The Benefits of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel before Empire: Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex) 6. "Apes of Imitation" Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe's Embassy to India: Nandini Das (University of Liverpool) 7. A Multinational Corporation: Foreign Labor in the London East India Company: Richmond Barbour (Oregon State University) 8. Where was Iceland in 1600? Mary C. Fuller (MIT) 9. East by North east: The English among the Russians, 1553 1603: Gerald MacLean (University of Exeter) 10. The Politics of Identity: William Adams, John Saris, and the English East India Company's Failure in Japan Catherine Ryu (Michigan State University) 11. The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns: Ian Smith (University of Reading) Part III: Networks of Exchange: Traveling Objects: 12. Guns and Gawds: Elizabethan England's Infidel Trade: Matthew Dimmock (University of Sussex) 13. Cassio, Cash, and the "Infidel 0" Arithmetic, Double entry Book keeping, and Othello' s Unfaithful Accounts: Patricia Parker (Stanford University) 14. Seeds of Sacrifice: Amaranth, the Gardens of Tenochtitlan and Spenser's Faerie Queene: Edward M. Test (Boise State University) 15. "So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous" The Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern England: Stephen Deng (Michigan State University) 16. Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English Traders in the Canaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Barbara Sebek (Colorado State University) 17. "The Whole Globe of the Earth" Almanacs and Their Readers: Adam Smyth (University of Reading) 18. Cesare Vecellio, Venetian Writer and Art book Cosmopolitan: Ann Rosalind Jones (Smith College) Part IV: The Globe Staged: 19. Bettrice's Monkey: Staging Exotica in Early Modern London Comedy: Jean E. Howard (Columbia University) 20. The Maltese Factor: The Poetics of Place in The Jew of Malta and The Knight of Malta: Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University) 21. Local/Global Pericles International Storytelling, Domestic Social Relations, Capitalism: David Morrow (College of St. Rose)