The cultural politics of blood, 1500-1900 / edited by Kimberly Anne Coles, Ralph Bauer, Zita Nunes and Carla L. Peterson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coles, Kimberly Anne, 1966- editor.

Bauer, Ralph, 1965- editor.

Nunes, Zita, editor.

Peterson, Carla L., 1944- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blood--Symbolic aspects--History.

Blood.

Blood--Religious aspects--History.

Blood in literature.

History of Medicine.

Medicine in Literature.

Racism--history.

Sociological Factors.

Blood--Religious aspects.

Blood--Symbolic aspects.

Medical Subjects:

Blood.

History of Medicine.

Medicine in Literature.

Racism--history.

Sociological Factors.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Contents:

Foreword: Priscilla Wald

Introduction; Kimberly Anne Coles, Ralph Bauer, Carla L. Peterson, and Zita Nunes

PART I: RACE AND STOCK

1. Metamateriality and Blood Purity in Cervantes's Alcaán de Toledo; Rachel Burk

2. The Blood of Others: Breeding Plants, Animals, and White People in the Spanish Atlantic; Ruth Hill

3. 'Rude Uncivill Blood': the Pastoral Challenge to Hereditary Race in Fletcher and Milton; Jean Feerick

4. African Blood, Colonial Money, and Respectable Mulatto Heiresses Reforming Eighteenth-Century England; Lyndon Dominique

PART II: MORAL CONSTITUTION

5. 'His blood be upon us and upon our children': Medical Theology and the Demise of Jewish Somatic Inferiority in Early Modern England; M. Lindsay Kaplan

6. Sor Juana's Appetite: Body, Mind, and Vitality in 'First Dream'; Anna More

7. Blood and Character in Early African American Literature; Hannah Spahn

PART III: MEDICALIZING THE POLITICAL BODY

8. Flowing or pumping? The Blood of the Body Politic in Burton, Harvey, and Hobbes; Robert Appelbaum

9. Linnaeus and the Four Corners of the World; Staffan Mller Wille

10. 'Who Got Bloody?': The Cultural Meaning of Blood during the Civil War and Reconstruction; James Downs

11. Colonial Transfusions: Cuban Bodies and Spanish Loyalty in the Nineteenth Century; David Sartorius.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781137338204

1137338202

1137338210

9781137338211

OCLC:

886489187

Publisher Number:

99985069418