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Foreword /Margo Hendricks -Introduction /Carol Mejia LaPerle --I.Racial Formations of Affective Communities --1.Imagining Islamicate Worlds: Race and Affect in the Contact Zone /Ambereen Dadabhoy --2.Desire, Disgust, and the Perils of Strange Queenship in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene /Mira Assaf Kafantaris --3.New World Encounters and the Racial Limits of Friendship in Early Quaker Life Writing /Meghan E. Hall --4.Early Modern Affect Theory, Racialized Aversion, and the Strange Case of Foetor Judaicus /Drew Daniel --II.Racialized Affects of Sex and Gender --5.Conversion Interrupted: Shame and the Demarcation of Jewish Women's Difference in The Merchant of Venice /Sara Coodin --6.Navigating a Kiss in the Racialized Geopolitical Landscape of Thomas Heywood's The Fair Maid of the West /Kirsten N. Mendoza --7.Branded with Baseness: Bastardy and Race in King Lear /Mario DiGangi --III.Feelings and Forms of Anti-Blackness --8.Black Ink, White Feelings: Early Modern Print Technology and Anti-Black Racism /Averyl Dietering --9. "Away, You Ethiop!": A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Denial of Black Affect--A Song to Underscore the Burning of Police Stations /Matthieu Chapman --10.Othello's Unfortunate Happiness /Cora Fox --11.The Racialized Affects of Ill-Will in the Dark Lady Sonnets /Carol Mejia LaPerle. "Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature puts the fields of critical race studies and affect theory into dialogue. Doing so opens a new set of questions: What are the emotional experiences of racial formation and racist ideologies? How do feelings--through the physical senses, emotional passions, or sexual encounters--come to signify race? What is the affective register of anti-blackness that pervades canonical literature? How can these visceral forms of racism be resisted in discourse and in practice? By investigating how race feels, this book offers new ways of reading and interpreting literary traditions, religious differences, gendered experiences, class hierarchies, sexuality, and social identities. So far scholars have shaped the discussion of race in the early modern period by focusing on topics such as genealogy, language, economics, religion, skin color, and ethnicity. This book, however, offers something new: it considers racializing processes as visceral, affective experiences"--
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