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The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622

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Authors:
  1. Jane Grogan

    1. University College Dublin, Ireland

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Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Reading Persia in Renaissance England

    • Jane Grogan
    Pages 1-31

  3. Classical Persia: Making Kings and Empires

    • Jane Grogan
    Pages 32-69

  4. Romance Persia: ‘Nourse of Pompous Pride’

    • Jane Grogan
    Pages 70-111

  5. Staging Persia: ‘To ride in triumph through Persepolis’

    • Jane Grogan
    Pages 112-149

  6. Sherley Persia: ‘Agible things’

    • Jane Grogan
    Pages 150-179

  7. Epilogue: Ormuz

    • Jane Grogan
    Pages 180-184

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 185-256
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About this book

The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622 studies the conception of Persia in the literary, political and pedagogic writings of Renaissance England and Britain. It argues that writers of all kinds debated the means and merits of English empire through their intellectual engagement with the ancient Persian empire.

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  • University College Dublin, Ireland

    Jane Grogan

About the author

Jane Grogan is a Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of Exemplary Spenser (2009; winner of the Isabel MacCaffrey prize) and the editor of Celebrating Mutabilitie: Essays on Edmund Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos (2010) and several journal articles.

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