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In Mimesis and Empire 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 New book considers a
broad sweep of material, including European representations of New
World subjects and of Islam, both portrayed as ‘‘other’’ in contemporary
supplements the transatlantic perspective on early modern im-
perialism with an awareness of the situation in the Mediterranean and
considers problems of reading and literary transmission; imperial ideo-
logy and colonial identities; counterfeits and forgery; and piracy.
 is Associate Professor of English and Adjunct Associ-
ate Professor of Spanish at the University of Washington,
has published a number of articles on Anglo-Spanish relations, Cervantes
and ‘‘passing,’’ and early-modern nation formation.
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Mimesis and Empire
Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
General Editor
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Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities, Stanford University
Editorial board
Anne Barton, University of Cambridge
Jonathan Dollimore, University of York
Marjorie Garber, Harvard University
Jonathan Goldberg, Johns Hopkins University
Nancy Vickers, Bryn Mawr College
Since the 1970s there has been a broad and vital reinterpretation of the nature of
literary texts, a move away from formalism to a sense of literature as an aspect of
social, economic, political and cultural the earliest New Historicist
work was criticized for a narrow and anecdotal view of history, it also served as
an important stimulus for post-structuralist, feminist, Marxist and
psychoanalytical work, which in turn has increasingly informed and redirected it.
Recent writing on the nature of representat