05117nam 2200829Ia 450 991046291870332120220205000241.00-8122-0233-310.9783/9780812202335(CKB)2670000000418171(OCoLC)745695858(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748344(SSID)ssj0000981359(PQKBManifestationID)11547064(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000981359(PQKBWorkID)10971631(PQKB)10958139(MiAaPQ)EBC3442034(MdBmJHUP)muse26724(DE-B1597)449091(OCoLC)1013938841(OCoLC)979577826(DE-B1597)9780812202335(Au-PeEL)EBL3442034(CaPaEBR)ebr10748344(CaONFJC)MIL682340(EXLCZ)99267000000041817120040517d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrShades of difference[electronic resource] mythologies of skin color in early modern England /Sujata IyengarPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20051 online resource (321 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-51058-X 0-8122-3832-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-297) and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Abbreviations --Introduction --I Ethiopian Histories --Chapter 1 Pictures of Andromeda Naked --Chapter 2 Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Bride --Chapter 3 Masquing Race --II Whiteness Visible --Chapter 4 Heroic Blushing --Chapter 5 Blackface and Blushface --Chapter 6 Whiteness as Sexual Difference --III Travail Narratives --Chapter 7 Artificial Negroes --Chapter 8 Suntanned Slaves --Chapter 9 Experiments of Colors --Afterword: Nancy Burson's Human Race Machine --Notes --Bibliography --Index --AcknowledgmentsWas there such a thing as a modern notion of race in the English Renaissance, and, if so, was skin color its necessary marker? In fact, early modern texts described human beings of various national origins-including English-as turning white, brown, tawny, black, green, or red for any number of reasons, from the effects of the sun's rays or imbalance of the bodily humors to sexual desire or the application of makeup. It is in this cultural environment that the seventeenth-century London Gazette used the term "black" to describe both dark-skinned African runaways and dark-haired Britons, such as Scots, who are now unquestioningly conceived of as "white."In Shades of Difference, Sujata Iyengar explores the cultural mythologies of skin color in a period during which colonial expansion and the slave trade introduced Britons to more dark-skinned persons than at any other time in their history. Looking to texts as divergent as sixteenth-century Elizabethan erotic verse, seventeenth-century lyrics, and Restoration prose romances, Iyengar considers the construction of race during the early modern period without oversimplifying the emergence of race as a color-coded classification or a black/white opposition. Rather, "race," embodiment, and skin color are examined in their multiple contexts-historical, geographical, and literary. Iyengar engages works that have not previously been incorporated into discussions of the formation of race, such as Marlowe's "Hero and Leander" and Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis." By rethinking the emerging early modern connections between the notions of race, skin color, and gender, Shades of Difference furthers an ongoing discussion with originality and impeccable scholarship.Black people in literatureDifference (Psychology) in literatureEnglish literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismHuman skin color in literatureHuman skin colorSocial aspectsEnglandLiterature and societyEnglandHistory16th centuryLiterature and societyEnglandHistory17th centuryMythology in literatureRace in literatureEnglandRace relationsHistory16th centuryEnglandRace relationsHistory17th centuryElectronic books.Black people in literature.Difference (Psychology) in literature.English literatureHistory and criticism.Human skin color in literature.Human skin colorSocial aspectsLiterature and societyHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryMythology in literature.Race in literature.820.9/3552Iyengar Sujata1053151MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462918703321Shades of difference2484899UNINA