Fictions of Embassy: Literature and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe

by Timothy Hampton

Book Overview

Historians of early modern Europe have long stressed how new practices of diplomacy that emerged during the period transformed European politics. Fictions of Embassy is the first book to examine the cultural implications of the rise of modern diplomacy. Ranging across two and a half centuries and half a dozen languages, Timothy Hampton opens a new perspective on the intersection of literature and politics at the dawn of modernity. Hampton...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801478413
• ISBN13: 9780801478413
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher