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Reading and the History of Race in the Renaissance.

Spiller demonstrates how early modern reading practices were connected to emerging attitudes towards racial and ethnic identity.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Spiller, Elizabeth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: print culture, the humoral reader, and the racialized body; Chapter 1 Genealogy and race after the Fall of Constantinople: from The King of Tars to Tirant lo Blanc and Amadis of Gaul; Chapter 2 The form and matter of race: Heliodorus' Aethiopika, hylomorphism, and neo-Aristotelian readers; Chapter 3 The conversion of the reader: Ariosto, Herberay, Munday, and Cervantes; Chapter 4 Pamphilia's black humor: reading and racial melancholy in the Urania; Notes; Index.