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Human insufficiency : natural slavery and racialization of vulnerability in early modern England / Jeffrey B. Griswold.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Griswold, Jeffrey B., author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in renaissance literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body in literature.
- Master and servant in literature.
- Racism in literature.
- Philosophical anthropology in literature.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 162 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2024.
- Biography/History:
- Jeffrey B. Griswold is a scholar of early modern literature and political philosophy. His work has been published in Exemplaria, Studies in Philology, Renaissance Drama, Spenser Studies, The Spenser Review, and Critical Survey.
- Contents:
- Frail humanity in King Lear and early modern Aristotelian political thought
- Human vulnerability and natural slavery in The Faerie Queen
- Servitude and human negative exceptionalism in Montaigne, La Boetie, and The Duchess of Malfi
- Unnatural slavery and the protection of White women in Cavendish's Assaulted and pursued chastity
- Coda: materializing race and salvaging vulnerability in Jemisin's Broken earth trilogy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 03, 2023).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Griswold, Jeffrey B. Human insufficiency
- ISBN:
- 9781003362029
- 1003362028
- 9781000989977
- 1000989976
- 9781000989953
- 100098995X
- Publisher Number:
- 40032284537
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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