Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature
Elizabeth Gansen
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512824568
Pub Date: December 2023
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Natural Designs chronicles the life and work of the earliest and most influential Spanish historian of the New World, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478–1557). Through a combination of biography and...
Envisioned as a tribe of ruddy-faced, redheaded, red-bearded Jewish warriors, bedecked in red attire who purportedly resided in isolation at the fringes of the known world, the Red Jews are a legendary...
In Sex Lives, Joseph Gamble draws from literature, art, and personal testimonies from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe to uncover how early moderns learned to have sex. In the early modern...
Staging Race Between Early Modern England and Spain
Emily Weissbourd
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512822908
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Bad Blood explores representations of race in early modern English and Spanish literature, especially drama. It addresses two different forms of racial ideology: one concerned with racialized religious...
The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowledge, Debapriya Sarkar argues for the pivotal role of literature—what...
Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print
Jessica Rosenberg
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512823332
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Hardcover
376 Pages
During the middle years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, the number of books published with titles that described themselves as flowers, gardens, or forests more than tripled. During those same years,...
Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race
Noémie Ndiaye
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512822632
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Hardcover
376 Pages
Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn blackness into a racial category, that is, into a type of difference justifying...
Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England
Urvashi Chakravarty
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780812253658
Pub Date: March 2022
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
In Fictions of Consent Urvashi Chakravarty excavates the ideologies of slavery that took root in early modern England in the period that preceded the development of an organized trade in enslaved persons.Despite...
