Reading and the History of Race in the Renaissance

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European
Cover of the book Reading and the History of Race in the Renaissance by Elizabeth Spiller, Cambridge University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Elizabeth Spiller ISBN: 9781139064033
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: May 12, 2011
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Elizabeth Spiller
ISBN: 9781139064033
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: May 12, 2011
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from Cambridge University Press

Cover of the book Black Germany by Elizabeth Spiller
Cover of the book Learning and Everyday Life by Elizabeth Spiller
Cover of the book China in the International Economic Order by Elizabeth Spiller
Cover of the book Discovering Medieval Song by Elizabeth Spiller
Cover of the book A Concise History of Portugal by Elizabeth Spiller
Cover of the book Aristotle on the Nature of Community by Elizabeth Spiller
Cover of the book Assessing Constitutional Performance by Elizabeth Spiller
Cover of the book Polynomials and the mod 2 Steenrod Algebra: Volume 2, Representations of GL (n,F2) by Elizabeth Spiller
Cover of the book Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book by Elizabeth Spiller
Cover of the book Ecology and Conservation of the Sirenia by Elizabeth Spiller
Cover of the book Solidarity and Justice in Health and Social Care by Elizabeth Spiller
Cover of the book Digital Mammography by Elizabeth Spiller
Cover of the book The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel by Elizabeth Spiller
Cover of the book Bridging the Gap between Aristotle's Science and Ethics by Elizabeth Spiller
Cover of the book A History of Zimbabwe by Elizabeth Spiller
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy