{"product_id":"early-modern-visual-culture-representation-race-and-empire-in-renaissance-england-paperback-softback-9780812217346","title":"Early Modern Visual Culture; Representation, Race, and Empire in Renaissance England (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812217346","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEarly Modern Visual Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRepresentation, Race, and Empire in Renaissance England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Erickson (Edited by), Clark Hulse (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812217346\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 12 September 2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e408 pages, 133 illus.\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.778 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As a picture of what currently might be most profitably studied in the visual culture of early modern England, and of how to conduct scholarship in the field, the volume is exemplary. . . . [It] treats a culture for which there is considerable scholarly interest, but from angles which have been woefully ignored up until now.\"-Joseph Koerner, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn interdisciplinary group of scholars applies the reinterpretive concept of \"visual culture\" to the English Renaissance. Bringing attention to the visual issues that have appeared persistently, though often marginally, in the newer criticisms of the last decade, the authors write in a diversity of voices on a range of subjects. Common among them, however, is a concern with the visual technologies that underlie the representation of the body, of race, of nation, and of empire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeveral essays focus on the construction and representation of the human body-including an examination of anatomy as procedure and visual concept, and a look at early cartographic practice to reveal the correspondences between maps and the female body. In one essay, early Tudor portraits are studied to develop theoretical analogies and historical links between verbal and visual portrayal. In another, connections in Tudor-Stuart drama are drawn between the female body and the textiles made by women. A second group of essays considers issues of colonization, empire, and race. They approach a variety of visual materials, including sixteenth-century representations of the New World that helped formulate a consciousness of subjugation; the Drake Jewel and the myth of the Black Emperor as indices of Elizabethan colonial ideology; and depictions of the Queen of Sheba among other black women \"present\" in early modern painting. One chapter considers the politics of collecting. The aesthetic and imperial agendas of a Van Dyck portrait are uncovered in another essay, while elsewhere, that same portrait is linked to issues of whiteness and blackness as they are concentrated within the ceremonies and trappings of the Order of the Garter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAll of the essays in \u003ci\u003eEarly Modern Visual Culture\u003c\/i\u003e explore the social context in which paintings, statues, textiles, maps, and other artifacts are produced and consumed. They also explore how those artifacts-and the acts of creating, collecting, and admiring them-are themselves mechanisms for fashioning the body and identity, situating the self within a social order, defining the otherness of race, ethnicity, and gender, and establishing relationships of power over others based on exploration, surveillance, and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e -Clark Hulse and Peter Erickson\u003cbr\u003e 1. Imaginary Conquests: European Material Technologies and the Colonial Mirror Stage\u003cbr\u003e -Steven Mullaney\u003cbr\u003e 2. Mapping the Global Body\u003cbr\u003e -Valerie Traub\u003cbr\u003e 3. Second-World Prosthetics: Supplying Deficiencies of Nature in Renaissance Italy\u003cbr\u003e -Harry Berger, Jr.\u003cbr\u003e 4. Reading Painting: Holbein, Cromwell, Wyatt\u003cbr\u003e -Clark Hulse\u003cbr\u003e 5. Art for the Sake of Dynasty: The Black Emperor in the Drake Jewel and Elizabethan Imperial Imagery\u003cbr\u003e -Karen C. C. Dalton\u003cbr\u003e 6. Staging Women's Relations to Textiles in Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eOthello\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCymbeline\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e -Susan Frye\u003cbr\u003e 7. Idols of the Gallery: Becoming a Connoisseur in Renaissance England\u003cbr\u003e -Stephen Orgel\u003cbr\u003e 8. Madagascar on My Mind: The Earl of Arundel and the Arts of Colonization\u003cbr\u003e -Ernest B. Gilman\u003cbr\u003e 9. \"God for Harry, England, and Saint George\": British National Identity and the Emergence of White Self-Fashioning\u003cbr\u003e -Peter Erickson\u003cbr\u003e 10. Object into Object? Some Thoughts on the Presence of Black Women in Early Modern Europe\u003cbr\u003e -Kim F. Hall\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e -Peter Erickson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHarry Berger Jr. (University of California, Santa Cruz) has recently published three books: \u003ci\u003eRevisionary Play: Studies in the Spenserian Dynamic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eImaginary Audition: Shakespeare on Stage and Page\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMaking Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e. His new book is \u003ci\u003eFictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKaren C. C. Dalton (Harvard University) is coauthor of \u003ci\u003eWinslow Homer's Images of Blacks: The Civil War and Reconstruction Years\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of the final three volumes of \u003ci\u003eThe Image of the Black in Western Art\u003c\/i\u003e, covering the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeter Erickson (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute) is author of \u003ci\u003ePatriarchal Structures in Shakespeare's Drama\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e, and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's \"Rough Magic\": Renaissance Essays in Honor of C. L. Barber\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSusan Frye (University of Wyoming) has written \u003ci\u003eElizabeth I: The Competition for Representation\u003c\/i\u003e and coedited \u003ci\u003eMaids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eErnest B. Gilman (New York University) is author of \u003ci\u003eIconoclasm and Poetry in the English Reformation: Down Went Dagon\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Curious Perspective: Literary and Pictorial Wit in the Seventeenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKim F. Hall (Georgetown University) has written \u003ci\u003eThings of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England\u003c\/i\u003e as well as essays on teaching the subject of race in Shakespeare's plays.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClark Hulse (University of Illinois at Chicago), is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rule of Art: Literature and Painting in the Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMetamorphic Verse: The Elizabethan Minor Epic\u003c\/i\u003e. He is currently working on a study of Holbein and the age of Henry VIII.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSteven Mullaney (University of Michigan) has written \u003ci\u003eThe Place of the Stage: License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England\u003c\/i\u003e. He is at work on two books, \u003ci\u003eMourning and Misogyny: Reformation of Affect and Ideology in Shakespeare's England\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEmotions and Its Discontents\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen Orgel (Stanford University) has recently published \u003ci\u003eImpersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England\u003c\/i\u003e and Oxford editions of \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eValerie Traub (University of Michigan) is author of \u003ci\u003eDesire and Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakspearean Drama\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eFeminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685348307224,"sku":"9780812217346","price":30.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/early-modern-visual-culture-representation-race-and-empire-in-renaissance-england-paperback-softback-9780812217346","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}