Human insufficiency : natural slavery and racialization of vulnerability in early modern England /
"Human Insufficiency argues that early modern writers depict the human political subject as physically vulnerable in order to naturalize slavery. Representations of Man as a weak creature-"poor" and "bare" in King Lear's words-strategically portrayed English bodies as n...
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New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2024
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| Series: | Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture
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Table of 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