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Early modern visual culture : representation, race, empire in Renaissance England / edited by Peter Erickson and Clark Hulse.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) NX544.A1 E18 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New cultural studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts, English.
- Arts, Modern--England.
- Arts, Modern.
- Renaissance--England.
- Renaissance.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 403 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- A collection of 10 original essays that explore the social context in which paintings, statues, textiles, maps, and other artifacts were produced and consumed in Renaissance England.
- Contents:
- 1. Imaginary Conquests: European Material Technologies and the Colonial Mirror Stage / Steven Mullaney 15
- 2. Mapping the Global Body / Valerie Traub 44
- 3. Second-World Prosthetics: Supplying Deficiencies of Nature in Renaissance Italy / Harry Berger, Jr. 98
- 4. Reading Painting: Holbein, Cromwell, Wyatt / Clark Hulse 148
- 5. Art for the Sake of Dynasty: The Black Emperor in the Drake Jewel and Elizabethan Imperial Imagery / Karen C. C. Dalton 178
- 6. Staging Women's Relations to Textiles in Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline / Susan Frye 215
- 7. Idols of the Gallery: Becoming a Connoisseur in Renaissance England / Stephen Orgel 251
- 8. Madagascar on My Mind: The Earl of Arundel and the Arts of Colonization / Ernest B. Gilman 284
- 9. "God for Harry, England, and Saint George": British National Identity and the Emergence of White Self-Fashioning / Peter Erickson 315
- 10. Object into Object?: Some Thoughts on the Presence of Black Women in Early Modern Culture / Kim F. Hall 346.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- Given to the Penn Libraries by Margy Ellin Meyerson in memory of her husband, President Emeritus Martin Meyerson.
- ISBN:
- 0812235592
- 0812217349
- OCLC:
- 43913274
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