Dennis Austin Britton
Biographic Data
| ID | 5801878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis Austin Britton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis Austin |
| FAMILY NAME | Britton |
| SIGNATURE | BRITTON D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Hampshire |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘Thrice fairer than myself’
This chapter draws attention to the hyper-whiteness of Adonis in Venus and Adonis, arguing that Shakespeare’s epyllion cannot produce a future for racial whiteness because sexual desire is darkened and linked to non-White people. Adonis’s hyper-whiteness points towards asexuality as absence of sexual desire, which, ironically, only makes Adonis more desirable to Venus. His whiteness is repeatedly threatened by Venus, whose body is less white than…
Histories and temporalities past, present, and future
Becoming Christian
Britton, Dennis Austin. Becoming Christian: Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 39, Number 3, Summer 2016, pp. 5-221), on Érudit
From the Knight’s Tale to The Two Noble Kinsmen
Becoming Christian
The infidel-conversion motif—in which Jews and Muslims convert to Christianity—is a staple of romance narratives by Roman Catholic writers in medieval and early modern Europe. Baptisms and conversions of infidels lead to an important telos of the romance genre: Despite their narrative wanderings and deferrals, romances often contain transformations of identity that lead to the incorporation of the other into Christian community. Uses of the infid…
Allegory and Difference in Ralegh and De Bry
The travel narratives in Theodor De Bry's America and the collection itself are often read allegorically: the events in the New World are read as signifying Protestant-Catholic conflict on the European continent. Attending to differences between the English text of Sir Walter Ralegh's The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana and its Latin translation in part 8 of America, however, reveals a more complex relationship between…
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Allegory and Difference in Ralegh and De Bry
The travel narratives in Theodor De Bry's America and the collection itself are often read allegorically: the events in the New World are read as signifying Protestant-Catholic conflict on the European continent. Attending to differences between the English text of Sir Walter Ralegh's The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana and its Latin translation in part 8 of America, however, reveals a more complex relationship between…
Becoming Christian
The infidel-conversion motif—in which Jews and Muslims convert to Christianity—is a staple of romance narratives by Roman Catholic writers in medieval and early modern Europe. Baptisms and conversions of infidels lead to an important telos of the romance genre: Despite their narrative wanderings and deferrals, romances often contain transformations of identity that lead to the incorporation of the other into Christian community. Uses of the infid…
From the Knight’s Tale to The Two Noble Kinsmen
Becoming Christian
Britton, Dennis Austin. Becoming Christian: Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 39, Number 3, Summer 2016, pp. 5-221), on Érudit
Histories and temporalities past, present, and future
‘Thrice fairer than myself’
This chapter draws attention to the hyper-whiteness of Adonis in Venus and Adonis, arguing that Shakespeare’s epyllion cannot produce a future for racial whiteness because sexual desire is darkened and linked to non-White people. Adonis’s hyper-whiteness points towards asexuality as absence of sexual desire, which, ironically, only makes Adonis more desirable to Venus. His whiteness is repeatedly threatened by Venus, whose body is less white than…
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