Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia

Su Fang Ng is Clifford A. Cutchins III Professor and Associate Professor of English at Virginia Tech . She is the author of Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and of numerous articles on early modern, medieval, and postcolonial topics; she has also guest-edited a special issue of Genre on Transcultural Networks in the Indian Ocean. She has received fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, the National Humanities Center, the University of Texas at Austin, Leiden University, Heidelberg University, All Souls College, Oxford, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, among others.

• FrontmatterList of Maps and Figures0: Introduction: Intimate Strangers - Peripheries in Global Literary NetworksPart I: Conjunctions1: Heirs to Rome2: Islamic Alexanders in Southeast Asia3: Scottish Alexanders and Stuart Empire4: Greco-Arabic Mirrors for Barbarian Kings5: Hamlet and Arabic Literary NetworksPart II: Invocations6: From Source to Allusion: Alexander in Intercultural Encounters7: English Alexanders and Empire from the Periphery8: Millennial Alexander in the Making of Aceh9: Milton, Alexander s Pirate, and Merchant Empires in the East10: Demotic Alexander in Indian Ocean Trading WorldsEpilogueEndmatterTimeline of Texts and EventsBibliographyIndex

Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia is engaging, well-written and thoroughly researched. Readers will find Ng an able guide to various historical and literary contexts, as well as a clear articulator of the theoretical underpinnings of her approach.