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Author MacDonald, Joyce Green.

Title Women and race in early modern texts / Joyce Green MacDonald.

Publication Info. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 188 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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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.
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Subject Race in literature.
Race in literature.
English drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
English drama -- Women authors.
Renaissance -- England.
Renaissance.
England.
Women in literature.
Women in literature.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1380-1730
1500-1699
Indexed Term Litteratur Engelsk, amerikansk litteratur.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online-Publikation.
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)
9780511042140 (electronic book)
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