Carmen Nocentelli

Empires of Love

Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on a wide range of Dutch, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish sources, Empires of Love shows how the encounter with Asia shaped the way early modern Europeans came to define their racial and sexual identities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Renewed Spirit Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780812244830
• ISBN-10: 0812244834
• Artikelnr.: 37502108

Autorenporträt

Carmen Nocentelli

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Note on Quotations and Translations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Perverse Implantations
Chapter 2. The Erotic Politics of Os Lusíadas
Chapter 3. Discipline and Love: Linschoten and the Estado da Índia
Chapter 4. Polygamy and the Arts of Reduction
Chapter 5. The Ideology of Interracial Romance
Chapter 6. English Whiteness and the End of Romance
Notes
Bibliography
Index