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Reading and the history of race in the Renaissance /
"Elizabeth Spiller studies how early modern attitudes towards race were connected to assumptions about the relationship between the act of reading and the nature of physical identity. As reading was understood to happen in and to the body, what you read could change who you were. In a culture i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Elizabeth Spiller studies how early modern attitudes towards race were connected to assumptions about the relationship between the act of reading and the nature of physical identity. As reading was understood to happen in and to the body, what you read could change who you were. In a culture in which learning about the world and its human boundaries came increasingly through reading, one place where histories of race and histories of books intersect is in the minds and bodies of readers. Bringing together ethnic studies, book history and historical phenomenology, this book provides a detailed case study of printed romances and works by Montalvo, Heliodorus, Amyot, Ariosto, Tasso, Cervantes, Munday, Burton, Sidney and Wroth. Reading and the History of Race traces ways in which print culture and the reading practices it encouraged, contributed to shifting understandings of racial and ethnic identity"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 252 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139078788 113907878X 9780511842337 0511842333 9781139081054 1139081055 9781107463370 1107463378 1139064037 9781139064033 1107221749 9781107221741 1283127318 9781283127318 1139076507 9781139076500 9786613127310 6613127310 1139083325 9781139083324 1139070789 9781139070782 |