Description
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wide range of Dutch, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish sources, Empires of Love shows how the encounter with Asia shaped the way early modern Europeans came to define their racial and sexual identities.
Trade Review"Compelling and filled with rich textual and historical details,
Empires of Love 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
Empires of Love will find much to think about." * Josiah Blackmore, University of Toronto *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Note on Quotations and Translations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Perverse Implantations
Chapter 2. The Erotic Politics of Os Lusíadas
Chapter 3. Discipline and Love: Linschoten and the Estado da Índia
Chapter 4. Polygamy and the Arts of Reduction
Chapter 5. The Ideology of Interracial Romance
Chapter 6. English Whiteness and the End of Romance
Notes
Bibliography
Index
