644052988     

336975945                        

---

Reading and the history of race in the Renaissance / Elizabeth Spiller

Spiller, Elizabeth

1. publ.

Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2011

IX, 252 S.

Englisch

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 Amadis 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

Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke.

Erscheint auch als: Reading and the history of race in the Renaissance / Spiller, Elizabeth [GNDNR:1213102804] (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-107-46337-0 (pbk); 1-107-00735-6 (hbk.); 978-1-107-00735-2 ( : hbk.)

2011008030

9781107007352

OCoLC: 759869677     

OCoLC: 707092300 (aus SWB)     

HI 1140      Ähnliche Literatur

HT1507

305.80094/09024

Basisklassifikation: 15.34 (Europäische Geschichte 1492-1789) ; 17.93 (Literarische Stoffe; literarische Motive; literarische Themen) ; 18.00 (Einzelne Sprachen und Literaturen allgemein)

*Renaissance ; Literatur ; Ethnische Identität      Zum Register

*Literatur ; Ethnische Identität ; Geschichte 1500-1600      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Race awareness -- Europe -- History -- 16th century ; Books and reading -- Europe -- History -- 16th century ; Race awareness in literature ; Europe -- Intellectual life -- 16th century

Renaissance ; Literatur ; Rassische Identität

"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"--Provided by publisher

---

"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"--Provided by publisher

 Cover    Autorenbiografie    Verlagsangaben    Inhaltsverzeichnis