Reading and the history of race in the Renaissance /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Spiller, Elizabeth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
1500-1599
Race awareness > Europe > History > 16th century.
Books and reading > Europe > History > 16th century.
Race awareness in literature.
Conscience de race > Europe > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Livres et lecture > Europe > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Conscience de race dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Books and reading.
Intellectual life.
Race awareness.
Europe > Intellectual life > 16th century.
Europe > Vie intellectuelle > 16e siècle.
Europe.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: print culture, the humoral reader, and the racialized body; 1. Genealogy and race in post-Constantinople Romance: from The King of Tars to Tirant lo Blanc and Amadis de Gaula; 2. The form and matter of race: Heliodorus' Aethiopika, hylomorphism, and neo-Aristotelian readers; 3. The conversion of the reader: Ariosto, Herberay, Munday, and Cervantes; 4. Pamphilia's black humor: reading and racial melancholy in the Urania.

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