Old Worlds 1st edition   Old Worlds 0 9780804743372 0804743371
Details about this item Old Worlds: Although much attention has
been paid to early modern European travel to the New World,
attention is just beginning to be paid to the travels in the Old
World, even though they speak to contemporary concerns with
categories like civilization, race, and nation as much as,
sometimes more than, the New World explorations.  This book
aligns travel narratives and historical surveys of parts of the
Old World—Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and Russia—with texts by
Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden that contributed to English
ideas about those regions. Addressing the current interest in
Europe's relationship with its neighbors and near-neighbors in
the Old World, the author introduces the term "paracolonial" to
describe Europe's attitude toward those areas where its colonial
reach was intermittent or nonexistent.  The book begins by
matching ancient and early modern accounts of Egypt and Ethiopia
with Shakespeare's Anton