Reading and the History of Race in the Renaissance

by Elizabeth Spiller

Book Overview

Elizabeth Spiller studies how early modern attitudes toward 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 world 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107463378
• ISBN13: 9781107463370
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"