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- catalog abstract ""The importance of English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama lies in its recognition that the English were afflicted in the sixteenth century by a profoundly unstable sense of identity derived from the British Isle's northern, marginalized status in a set of classical texts that were revered and considered authoritative. Simply put, humoralism, for the early modern English, was ethnology. Floyd-Wilson demonstrates that the English not only were driven to rearrange, discursively, this inherited knowledge in an effort to revalue those traits conventionally identified as 'northern', but they also aimed to alter or remedy their northern natures through the manipulation of their environment, whether that meant the air, temperature, diet and terrain, or the effects of travel, education, rhetoric, impersonation or fashion. To follow Floyd-Wilson's application of contemporary geohumoral theory to a succession of major canonical texts is exhilarating, surprising and unsettling, as Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson and others emerge as unwittingly complicit in ways of thinking about English selfhood that enabled the growth of the Atlantic slave trade and British imperialism."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12789756.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""The importance of English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama lies in its recognition that the English were afflicted in the sixteenth century by a profoundly unstable sense of identity derived from the British Isle's northern, marginalized status in a set of classical texts that were revered and considered authoritative. Simply put, humoralism, for the early modern English, was ethnology. Floyd-Wilson demonstrates that the English not only were driven to rearrange, discursively, this inherited knowledge in an effort to revalue those traits conventionally identified as 'northern', but they also aimed to alter or remedy their northern natures through the manipulation of their environment, whether that meant the air, temperature, diet and terrain, or the effects of travel, education, rhetoric, impersonation or fashion. To follow Floyd-Wilson's application of contemporary geohumoral theory to a succession of major canonical texts is exhilarating, surprising and unsettling, as Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson and others emerge as unwittingly complicit in ways of thinking about English selfhood that enabled the growth of the Atlantic slave trade and British imperialism."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: the marginal English -- pt. I. Climatic culture: the transmissions and transmutations of ethnographic knowledge -- 1. The ghost of Hippocrates: geohumoral history in the West -- 2. British ethnology -- 3. An inside story of race: melancholy and ethnology -- pt. II. The English ethnographic theatre -- 4. Tamburlaine and the staging of white barbarity -- 5. Temperature and temperance in Ben Jonson's The Masque of Blackness -- 6. Othello's jealousy -- 7. Cymbeline's angels.".
- catalog extent "xii, 256 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521810566".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "822/.309355 21".
- catalog subject "English drama 17th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Ethnic groups in literature.".
- catalog subject "Ethnic relations in literature.".
- catalog subject "Ethnicity in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR658.E88 F58 2003".
- catalog subject "Race in literature.".
- catalog subject "Race relations in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: the marginal English -- pt. I. Climatic culture: the transmissions and transmutations of ethnographic knowledge -- 1. The ghost of Hippocrates: geohumoral history in the West -- 2. British ethnology -- 3. An inside story of race: melancholy and ethnology -- pt. II. The English ethnographic theatre -- 4. Tamburlaine and the staging of white barbarity -- 5. Temperature and temperance in Ben Jonson's The Masque of Blackness -- 6. Othello's jealousy -- 7. Cymbeline's angels.".
- catalog title "English ethnicity and race in early modern drama / Mary Floyd-Wilson.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".