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Item Details
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ENGLISH ETHNICITY AND RACE IN EARLY MODERN DRAMA
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By: |
Mary Floyd-Wilson |
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Paperback |
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£36.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0521027314 |
ISBN 13: |
9780521027311 |
Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
15 May, 2006 |
Pages: |
272 |
Description: |
This 2003 volume outlines 'scientific' conceptions of racial and ethnic differences in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English writing. |
Synopsis: |
In English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama, first published in 2003, Mary Floyd-Wilson outlines what we might call 'scientific' conceptions of racial and ethnic differences in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English writing. Drawing on classical and contemporary medical texts, histories and cosmographies, Floyd-Wilson demonstrates that Renaissance understandings of racial and ethnic identities contradicted many modern stereotypes concerning difference. Southerners, Africans, in particular, were identified as dispassionate, cool-tempered and wise, whereas the more northern English were understood to be unruly, impressionable and slow-witted. Concerned with the unflattering and constraining implications of this classically derived knowledge, English writers laboured to reinvent ethnology to their own advantage - a labour that paved the way for the invention of more familiar racial ideas. Floyd-Wilson highlights these English revisionary efforts in her surprising and transformational readings of the period's drama, including Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Jonson's The Masque of Blackness and Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline. |
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10 b/w illus. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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Returnable |
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