Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia: Peripheral Empires in the Global Renaissance
Awards:   Winner of Winner of the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize from the Renaissance Society of America.
Author:   Su Fang Ng (Clifford A. Cutchins III Professor and Associate Professor of English, Clifford A. Cutchins III Professor and Associate Professor of English, Virginia Polytechnic and State University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   420
Publication Date:   08 April 2019
Format:   Hardback
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  • Winner of Winner of the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize from the Renaissance Society of America.

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Author:   Su Fang Ng (Clifford A. Cutchins III Professor and Associate Professor of English, Clifford A. Cutchins III Professor and Associate Professor of English, Virginia Polytechnic and State University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.802kg
ISBN:  

9780198777687


ISBN 10:   019877768
Pages:   420
Publication Date:   08 April 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Frontmatter List of Maps and Figures 0: Introduction: Intimate Strangers - Peripheries in Global Literary Networks Part I: Conjunctions 1: Heirs to Rome 2: Islamic Alexanders in Southeast Asia 3: Scottish Alexanders and Stuart Empire 4: Greco-Arabic Mirrors for Barbarian Kings 5: Hamlet and Arabic Literary Networks Part II: Invocations 6: From Source to Allusion: Alexander in Intercultural Encounters 7: English Alexanders and Empire from the Periphery 8: Millennial Alexander in the Making of Aceh 9: Milton, Alexander s Pirate, and Merchant Empires in the East 10: Demotic Alexander in Indian Ocean Trading Worlds Epilogue Endmatter Timeline of Texts and Events Bibliography Index

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A valuable contribution to scholarship on classical reception. ... Highly recommended * CHOICE *


In short, Su Fang Ng's marvelous book makes the Renaissance truly, finally global. * Gordon Prize 2020 from the Renaissance Society of America * A valuable contribution to scholarship on classical reception. ... Highly recommended * CHOICE *


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Su Fang Ng is Clifford A. Cutchins III Professor and Associate Professor of English at Virginia Tech . She is the author of Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and of numerous articles on early modern, medieval, and postcolonial topics; she has also guest-edited a special issue of Genre on Transcultural Networks in the Indian Ocean. She has received fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, the National Humanities Center, the University of Texas at Austin, Leiden University, Heidelberg University, All Souls College, Oxford, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, among others.

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