By Jyotsna G. Singh
- An cutting edge assortment that interrogates the worldwide paradigm of our interval and gives a brand new heritage of globalization through exploring its affects on English tradition and literature of the early sleek period.
- Moves past conventional notions of Renaissance heritage almost always as a revival of antiquity and provides a brand new standpoint on England's mercantile and cross-cultural interactions with the recent and outdated Worlds of the Americas, Africa, and the East, to boot with Northern Europe.
- Illustrates how twentieth-century globalization was once the results of a long and intricate old strategy associated with the emergence of capitalism and colonialism
- Explores very important issues reminiscent of East-West relatives and Islam; visible representations of cultural 'others'; gender and race struggles in the new economies and cultures; worldwide drama at the cosmopolitan English degree, and lots of more
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