TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spiller, Elizabeth.
TI  - Reading and the history of race in the Renaissance
SN  - 9781107007
U1  - 305.80094 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Race awareness
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Race awareness in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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
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