Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities

Here the author explores the dynamics of imitation 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. 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.

Author: Barbara Fuchs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/29/2004
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.12w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780521543507

About the Author
Fuchs, Barbara: - Barbara Fuchs is Assistant Professor of English and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Washington, Seattle.

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