Reading and the history of race in the Renaissance

Publication Data

• Title Reading and the history of race in the Renaissance
• Author Elizabeth Spiller
• Publisher Cambridge University Press
• Publication date 2011
• Publication location Cambridge
• Language English

Contents

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

Topics

• Race awareness :: Europe :: History :: 16th century
• Books and reading :: Europe :: History :: 16th century
• Race awareness in literature
• Europe :: Intellectual life :: 16th century
• Europe

Reading and the history of race in the Renaissance by Elizabeth Spiller. ISBN 9781107007352. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.