Empires of Love - Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity

Informationen zum Autor Carmen Nocentelli is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of New Mexico. Klappentext Drawing on a wide range of Dutch, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish sources, Empires of Love shows how the encounter with Asia shaped the way early modern Europeans came to define their racial and sexual identities. Zusammenfassung Drawing on a wide range of Dutch! English! French! Italian! Portuguese! and Spanish sources! Empires of Love shows how the encounter with Asia shaped the way early modern Europeans came to define their racial and sexual identities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Note on Quotations and Translations Introduction Chapter 1. Perverse Implantations Chapter 2. The Erotic Politics of Os Lusíadas Chapter 3. Discipline and Love: Linschoten and the Estado da Índia Chapter 4. Polygamy and the Arts of Reduction Chapter 5. The Ideology of Interracial Romance Chapter 6. English Whiteness and the End of Romance Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Carmen Nocentelli, NOCENTELLI CARMEN
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.02.2013
• EAN: 9780812244830
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4483-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europa, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality