Joyce Green MacDonald

Women and Race in Early Modern Texts

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses the links between women's racial, sexual, and civic identities in early modern texts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780521810166
• ISBN-10: 0521810167
• Artikelnr.: 33609711

Autorenporträt

Joyce Green MacDonald is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: women, race, and Renaissance texts
1. Cleopatra: whiteness and knowledge
2. Sex, race, and empire in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
3. Dido and Sophonisba of Carthage: marriage, race, and the bonds between men
4. The disappearing African woman: Imoinda in Oroonoko after Behn
5. Race, women, and the sentimental in Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko
6. Chaste lines: writing and unwriting race in Katherine Phillips' Pompey
7. The Queen's minion: sexual difference, racial difference, and Aphra Behn's Abdelazer
Conclusion: 'the efficacy of imagination'
Bibliography
Index.