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Reading and the History of Race in the Renaissance

Reading and the History of Race in the Renaissance

Spiller, Elizabeth

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Literary CriticismAnthropology

ISBN10: 1107007356
ISBN13: 9781107007352
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 12 2011
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Elizabeth Spiller studies how early modern attitudes toward 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 world 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, Munday, Cervantes, 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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