Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance: Barbarian Errors

by Ian Smith and Ian Smith

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230620450
• ISBN13: 9780230620452
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"