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ENGLISH ETHNICITY AND RACE IN EARLY MODERN DRAMA
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| By: |
Mary Floyd-Wilson |
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Hardback |
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£74.00 |
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£64.75 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521810566 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521810562 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
20 February, 2003 |
| Pages: |
270 |
| 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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