Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance

1. Introduction Barbarous African, Barbarous English, and the Transactions of Race
Ian Smith

2. Classical Precedents
Ian Smith

3. Race in Perspective
Ian Smith

4. Barbarian Genealogies
Ian Smith

5. Instructing the English Nation
Ian Smith

6. Shakespeare’s Africans: Performing Race in Early Modern England
Ian Smith

7. Epilogue: Imperialism’s Legacy, or the “Language of the Criminal”
Ian Smith

Nyckelord: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Cultural History, British and Irish Literature, Literary History, Applied Linguistics, History of Britain and Ireland