Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature

Carol Mejia LaPerle is professor and honors advisor for the English department at Wright State University.

• ForewordMargo HendricksIntroduction Carol Mejia LaPerleSection 1: Racial Formations of Affective CommunitiesImagining Islamicate Worlds: Race and Affect in the Contact ZoneAmbereen DadabhoyDesire, Disgust, and the Perils of Strange Queenship in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie QueeneMira Assaf KafantarisNew World Encounters and the Racial Limits of Friendship in Early Quaker Life WritingMeghan E. HallEarly Modern Affect Theory, Racialized Aversion, and the Strange Case of Foetor JudaicusDrew DanielSection 2: Racialized Affects of Sex and GenderConversion Interrupted: Shame and the Demarcation of Jewish Women’s Difference in The Merchant of VeniceSara CoodinNavigating a Kiss in the Racialized Geopolitical Landscape of Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the WestKirsten N. MendozaBranded with Baseness: Bastardy and Race in King LearMario DiGangiSection 3: Feelings and Forms of Anti-BlacknessBlack Ink, White Feelings: Early Modern Print Technology and Anti-Black RacismAveryl 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 ChapmanOthello’s Unfortunate HappinessCora FoxThe Racialized Affects of Ill-will in the Dark Lady SonnetsCarol Mejia LaPerle

"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."