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Drawing upon literary, historical, and visual evidence, this collection of interdisciplinary essays examines how the Mediterranean shaped practices of gender in the premodern era. This volume bridges the gap between gender studies and Mediterranean studies, which have a natural fit with each other in their interest on defining identity carefully...→

This collection brings together critical race studies and affect theory to examine the emotional dimensions of race in early modern literature.→

A study that brings race and romance into dialogue→

The manuscript for Rivall Friendship was first acquired by the Newberry Library in 1937. At the time of the acquisition, the author of this seventeenth-century romance was anonymous. Scholar Jean R. Brink now suggests, based on dating of the manuscript and her analysis of its feminist themes, that the author was a woman. Specifically, Brink attributes the text to Bridget Manningham, who was the older sister of Thomas Manningham, a Jacobean and Caroline bishop, and...→

Explores the deployment of racial thinking and racial formations in the visual culture of the premodern world→

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This volume features a wide range of plays that reimagine Shakespeare works from Borderlands perspectives.→