01818cam a22002654a 4500 16683553 BD-DhUL 20160406161048.0 110308s2011 enk b 001 0 eng 9781107007352 1107007356 DLC DLC YDX YDXCP CDX BWX IL4J6 DLC BD-DhUL 305.80094 SPR Spiller, Elizabeth. Reading and the history of race in the Renaissance / Elizabeth Spiller. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. ix, 252 p. ; 24 cm. USD 81.00 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. Race awareness Europe History 16th century. Books and reading Europe History 16th century. Race awareness in literature. ddc BK 53443 53443 0 0 ddc 0 305_800940000000000_SPR 0 NFIC 88869 DUL DUL GEN 2012-12-06 Purchased 305.80094 SPR 477059 2016-04-06 2016-04-06 BK