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Reading and the history of race in the Renaissance /

"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 i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spiller, Elizabeth
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Race awareness > Europe > History > 16th century.
Books and reading > Europe > History > 16th century.
Race awareness in literature.
Europe > Intellectual life > 16th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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