Women and Race in Early Modern Texts

This book discusses the links between women's racial, sexual, and civic identities in early modern texts.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction: women, race, and Renaissance texts; 1. Cleopatra: whiteness and knowledge; 2. Sex, race, and empire in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra; 3. Dido and Sophonisba of Carthage: marriage, race, and the bonds between men; 4. The disappearing African woman: Imoinda in Oroonoko after Behn; 5. Race, women, and the sentimental in Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko; 6. Chaste lines: writing and unwriting race in Katherine Phillips' Pompey; 7. The Queen's minion: sexual difference, racial difference, and Aphra Behn's Abdelazer; Conclusion: 'the efficacy of imagination'; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Joyce Green MacDonald is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky.

Summary

This book discusses the links between women's racial, sexual, and civic identities in early modern texts. Joyce Green MacDonald examines both Renaissance, and Restoration as well as eighteenth-century plays covering works, by, among others, Shakespeare, Jonson, Davenant, the Countess of Pembroke, and Aphra Behn.

Product details

• Authors: Joyce Green MacDonald, MacDonald Joyce Green
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2002
• EAN: 9780521810166
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81016-6
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 237 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 470 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity