Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance: Barbarian Errors (Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700)
By: Solomos, John
ISBN: 9780230620452
$71.50
9780230620452
This book argues that the sixteenth-century preoccupation with rehabilitating English tells the larger story of an anxious nation redirecting attention away from its own marginal, minority status by racially scapegoating the 'barbarous' African.