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Putting Russia on the globe :The matter of Muscovy in early modern English travel writing and literature

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Putting Russia on the globe :
Reminder of title:	The matter of Muscovy in early modern English travel writing and literature
Author:	Shvarts, Elena.
Description:	309 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Stephen Orgel.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-04, Section: A, page: 1383.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-04A.
Subject:	Literature, English.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3128477
ISBN:	0496757393

Putting Russia on the globe :The matter of Muscovy in early modern English travel writing and literature
Shvarts, Elena.

Putting Russia on the globe :The matter of Muscovy in early modern English travel writing and literature [electronic resource] - 309 p.

Adviser: Stephen Orgel.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2004.

The Anglo-Russian entente produced a large body of travel narratives, maps, documents (such as the correspondence between Elizabeth I and Ivan the Terrible), literature and other cultural artifacts that I call the "Epic of the Matter of Muscovy." Although Russia has been neglected precisely because it doesn't fit into a postcolonialist model, the language of postcolonialism, especially the work of theorists like Homi Bhabha and Mary Louise Pratt who examine various contact histories, can prove valuable in discussing moments that don't exactly belong to its schemas. England's confrontation with Muscovy forces this burgeoning nation and empire to interrogate and reconfigure its position on the physical, moral, political and commercial maps, its European sense of self and colonialist enterprise. Furthermore, this English and European literary construction of Russia constitutes much of the evidence for early modern Russian history, which otherwise has sparse and incomplete native sources. England to some extent invented Russia and reinvented itself.

ISBN: 0496757393Subjects--Topical Terms:

212435
Literature, English.

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520 # $a This dissertation examines how Russia is variously seen as another New World, an Orientalized, barbarous and despotic East, a liminal space hovering between Europe and Asia, and a mirror of England in the early modern English literary imagination. While much has been written on the impact of early modern European discovery and travel narratives about the New World on the literary and cultural landscape of the period, many critiques ignore or occlude the fact that it was Asia---the East Indies---that the explorers were looking for. Travel narratives about the far east of Europe are scarcely taken into account at all despite the fact that the northeast passage to China was as energetically pursued as the northwest. This dissertation explores such eastward narratives by Richard Chancellor, Giles Fletcher, Sir Jerome Horsey, George Turberville and others and in turn, how their portraits of Russia become literary topoi in the works of writers such as Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Lodge, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. English travel narratives about Muscovy tell the "heroic" story of England's serendipitous "discovery" of Russia in 1553 in language that rivals Camoens' national epic of Portugal, The Lusiads .
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