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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Deftly organized into three major sections (Racial Formations of Affective Communities; Racialized Affects of Sex and Gender; Feelings and Forms of Anti-Blackness),
Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature will be of particular value to readers with an interest in literary criticism, race and ethnicity in literature, and the philosophy of race as reflected and influenced by literature and drama. A seminal work of collective scholarship,
Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature is highly recommended for personal, professional, and academic library Literary Studies collections." * Midwest Book Review *
Table of ContentsForeword
Margo Hendricks
Introduction
Carol Mejia LaPerle
Section 1: Racial Formations of Affective Communities
Imagining Islamicate Worlds: Race and Affect in the Contact Zone
Ambereen Dadabhoy
Desire, Disgust, and the Perils of Strange Queenship in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
Mira Assaf Kafantaris
New World Encounters and the Racial Limits of Friendship in Early Quaker Life Writing
Meghan E. Hall
Early Modern Affect Theory, Racialized Aversion, and the Strange Case of Foetor Judaicus
Drew Daniel
Section 2: Racialized Affects of Sex and Gender
Conversion Interrupted: Shame and the Demarcation of Jewish Women’s Difference in The Merchant of Venice
Sara Coodin
Navigating a Kiss in the Racialized Geopolitical Landscape of Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West
Kirsten N. Mendoza
Branded with Baseness: Bastardy and Race in King Lear
Mario DiGangi
Section 3: Feelings and Forms of Anti-Blackness
Black Ink, White Feelings: Early Modern Print Technology and Anti-Black Racism
Averyl Dietering
“Away, you Ethiope”: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Denial of Black Affect—
A Song to Underscore the Burning of Police Stations
Matthieu Chapman
Othello’s Unfortunate Happiness
Cora Fox
The Racialized Affects of Ill-will in the Dark Lady Sonnets
Carol Mejia LaPerle
