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Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance : Barbarian Errors

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

eBook, English, 2009
1st ed. 2009
Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2009