{"product_id":"empires-of-love-europe-asia-and-the-making-of-early-modern-identity-hardback-9780812244830","title":"Empires of Love; Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity (Hardback) 9780812244830","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEmpires of Love\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEurope, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarmen Nocentelli (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812244830\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 February 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 1 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.654 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\"Compelling and filled with rich textual and historical details, \u003ci\u003eEmpires of Love\u003c\/i\u003e will alter the ways we read the cross-cultural and domestic production of both race and desire.\" (Emily Bartels, Rutgers University) \"Carmen Nocentelli's book makes important contributions to the multiple fields it embraces, from colonial studies to gender politics to comparative literature. Scholars working in all of the national traditions presented in \u003ci\u003eEmpires of Love\u003c\/i\u003e will find much to think about.\" (Josiah Blackmore, University of Toronto)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries-epic poetry, private correspondence, secular dramas, and colonial legislation-Carmen Nocentelli charts the Western fascination with the eros of \"India,\" as the vast coastal stretch from the Gulf of Aden to the South China Sea was often called. If Asia was thought of as a place of sexual deviance and perversion, she demonstrates, it was also a space where colonial authorities actively encouraged the formation of interracial households, even through the forcible conscription of native brides. In her comparative analysis of Dutch, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish texts, Nocentelli shows how sexual behaviors and erotic desires quickly came to define the limits within which Europeans represented not only Asia but also themselves.\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on a wide range of European sources on polygamy, practices of male genital modification, and the allegedly excessive libido of native women, \u003ci\u003eEmpires of Love\u003c\/i\u003e emphasizes the overlapping and mutually transformative construction of race and sexuality during Europe's early overseas expansion, arguing that the encounter with Asia contributed to the development of Western racial discourse while also shaping European ideals of marriage, erotic reciprocity, and monogamous affection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on Quotations and Translations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Perverse Implantations\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Erotic Politics of \u003ci\u003eOs LusÍadas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Discipline and Love: Linschoten and the Estado da \u0026amp;Iacute;ndia\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Polygamy and the Arts of Reduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Ideology of Interracial Romance\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. English Whiteness and the End of Romance\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\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":52555716952344,"sku":"9780812244830","price":47.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/empires-of-love-europe-asia-and-the-making-of-early-modern-identity-hardback-9780812244830","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}