LEADER 05117nam 2200829Ia 450 001 9910462918703321 005 20220205000241.0 010 $a0-8122-0233-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202335 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418171 035 $a(OCoLC)745695858 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748344 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000981359 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11547064 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000981359 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10971631 035 $a(PQKB)10958139 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442034 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26724 035 $a(DE-B1597)449091 035 $a(OCoLC)1013938841 035 $a(OCoLC)979577826 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202335 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442034 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748344 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682340 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418171 100 $a20040517d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aShades of difference$b[electronic resource] $emythologies of skin color in early modern England /$fSujata Iyengar 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51058-X 311 $a0-8122-3832-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [269]-297) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction --$tI Ethiopian Histories --$tChapter 1 Pictures of Andromeda Naked --$tChapter 2 Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Bride --$tChapter 3 Masquing Race --$tII Whiteness Visible --$tChapter 4 Heroic Blushing --$tChapter 5 Blackface and Blushface --$tChapter 6 Whiteness as Sexual Difference --$tIII Travail Narratives --$tChapter 7 Artificial Negroes --$tChapter 8 Suntanned Slaves --$tChapter 9 Experiments of Colors --$tAfterword: Nancy Burson's Human Race Machine --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aWas 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. 606 $aBlack people in literature 606 $aDifference (Psychology) in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHuman skin color in literature 606 $aHuman skin color$xSocial aspects$zEngland 606 $aLiterature and society$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aMythology in literature 606 $aRace in literature 607 $aEngland$xRace relations$xHistory$y16th century 607 $aEngland$xRace relations$xHistory$y17th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBlack people in literature. 615 0$aDifference (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHuman skin color in literature. 615 0$aHuman skin color$xSocial aspects 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aMythology in literature. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a820.9/3552 700 $aIyengar$b Sujata$01053151 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462918703321 996 $aShades of difference$92484899 997 $aUNINA