The Diplomatic Moment: Representing Negotiation in Early Modern Europe

Abstract

Timothy Hampton is professor of comparative literature and French at the University of California, Berkeley. His work focuses on the relationship between literature and political discourse in early modern Europe. He is working on a book tentatively titled Fictions of Embassy: Literary Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Leibniz. His essay “On the Border: Geography, Gender, and Narrative Form in the Heptaméron” appeared in the December 1996 issue of MLQ.