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

by Barbara Fuchs

Book Overview

As powerful, pointed imitation, cultural mimesis can effect inclusion in a polity, threaten state legitimacy, or undo the originality upon which such legitimacy is based. In Mimesis and Empire , first published in 2001, Barbara Fuchs explores the intricate dynamics of imitation and contradistinction among early modern European powers in literary and historiographical texts from sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Spain, Italy, England and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521801028
• ISBN13: 9780521801027
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"