Elizabeth Spiller

Reading and the History of Race in the Renaissance

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781107463370
• ISBN-10: 1107463378
• Artikelnr.: 41416824

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Spiller is Professor of English and Director of the History of Text Technologies Program, Florida State University. She is the author of Science, Reading and Renaissance Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and editor of the two-volume Seventeenth-Century English Recipe Books (2008). She has been awarded fellowships from the NEH, the Fulbright and the Mellon foundations, and her article 'Situating Prospero's Art: Shakespeare and the Making of Early Modern Knowledge', which appeared in the South Central Review, was awarded the Kirby Prize by the SCMLA for the best article of 2009. Her work has been published in such journals as Renaissance Quarterly, Studies in English Literature, Modern Language Quarterly and Renaissance Drama.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Amadís 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.