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Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance : Barbarian Errors /

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This book argues that the sixteenth-century preoccupation with rehabilitating English tells the larger story of an anxious nation redirecting attention away from its own marginal, minority status by racially scapegoating the 'barbarous' African.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Ian (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series:Early modern cultural studies.
Subjects:
Literature.
Applied Linguistics.
British and Irish Literature.
Cultural History.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Literary History.
Applied linguistics.
British literature.
Civilization > History.
Literature > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern.
Great Britain > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This book argues that the sixteenth-century preoccupation with rehabilitating English tells the larger story of an anxious nation redirecting attention away from its own marginal, minority status by racially scapegoating the 'barbarous' African.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (244 pages)
ISBN:9780230102064
DOI:10.1057/9780230102064