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1 online resource (ix, 188 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-186) and index. |
Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Women, race, and Renaissance texts; CHAPTER 1 Cleopatra: whiteness and knowledge; CHAPTER 2 Sex, race, and empire in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra; CHAPTER 3 Dido and Sophonisba of Carthage: marriage, race, and the bonds between men; CHAPTER 4 The disappearing African woman: Imoinda in Oroonoko after Behn; CHAPTER 5 Race, women, and the sentimental in Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko; CHAPTER 6 Chaste lines: writing and unwriting race in Katherine Philips' Pompey. |
Summary |
Discusses the links between women's racial, sexual, and civic identities in early modern texts. Joyce Green MacDonald examines both Renaissance, and Restoration and eighteenth-century plays covering works, by, among others, Shakespeare, Jonson, Davenant, the Countess of Pembroke and Aphra Behn. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
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English drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English drama -- Women authors. |
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Renaissance -- England.
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Renaissance. |
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England. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1380-1730 |
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1500-1699 |
Indexed Term |
Litteratur Engelsk, amerikansk litteratur. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Online-Publikation.
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Other Form: |
Print version: MacDonald, Joyce Green. Women and race in early modern texts. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521810167 (DLC) 2001052492 (OCoLC)48144443 |
ISBN |
0511042140 (electronic book) |
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9780511042140 (electronic book) |
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0521810167 |
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9780521810166 |
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0511044976 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511044977 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511120087 (electronic book) |
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9780511120084 (electronic book) |
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