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The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900 / by Kimberly Anne Coles, Ralph Bauer, Zita Nunes, Carla L. Peterson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coles, Kimberly Anne., Author.
- Bauer, Ralph, Author.
- Nunes, Zita, Author.
- Peterson, Carla L., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization--History.
- Civilization.
- World history.
- Social history.
- Science--History.
- Science.
- Europe--History.
- Europe.
- Great Britain--History.
- Great Britain.
- Cultural History.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- Social History.
- History of Science.
- European History.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- Local Subjects:
- Cultural History.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- Social History.
- History of Science.
- European History.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (291 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing hierarchies.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Race and Stock; 1 Metamateriality and Blood Purity in Cervantes's Alcaná de Toledo; 2 The Blood of Others: Breeding Plants, Animals, and White People in the Spanish Atlantic; 3 "Rude Uncivill Blood": The Pastoral Challenge to Hereditary Race in Fletcher and Milton; 4 African Blood, Colonial Money, and Respectable Mulatto Heiresses Reforming Eighteenth-Century England; Part II: Moral Constitution
- 5 "His blood be on us and on our children": Medieval Theology and the Demise of Jewish Somatic Inferiority in Early Modern England6 Sor Juana's Appetite: Body, Mind, and Vitality in "First Dream"; 7 Blood and Character in Early African American Literature; Part III: Medicalizing the Political Body; 8 Flowing or Pumping? The Blood of the Body Politic in Burton, Harvey, and Hobbes; 9 Linnaeus and the Four Corners of the World; 10 "Who Got Bloody?": The Cultural Meanings of Blood during the Civil War and Reconstruction
- 11 Colonial Transfusions: Cuban Bodies and Spanish Loyalty in the Nineteenth CenturyFurther Reading; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349463954
- 1349463957
- 9781137338211
- 1137338210
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