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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Spiller, Elizabeth
Titre(s) : Reading and the history of race in the Renaissance [Texte imprimé] / Elizabeth Spiller
Publication : Cambridge (UK) : Cambridge university press, 2011
Description matérielle : IX-252 p. ; 24 cm
Comprend : 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
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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
Sujet(s) : Livres et lecture -- Europe -- 16e siècle
Groupes ethniques
Genre ou forme : Littérature -- Auteurs noirs
Indice(s) Dewey :
305.800 94 (23e éd.) = Groupes ethniques et nationaux - Europe
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107007352. - ISBN 1107007356
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb426977933
Notice n° :
FRBNF42697793
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