Reading and the history of race in the renaissance
Auteur :
Spiller, Elizabeth
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781107463370
Date de publication :
6 nov. 2014
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,4 cm
Poids :
360 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Bringing together ethnic studies, book history and Renaissance literature, this book 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. Spiller presents detailed case studies of works by writers including Heliodorus, Cervantes and Sidney.