The cultural politics of blood, 1500-1900 /
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Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : 2015 |
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Table of 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 Alcaǹ 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
- Part I: Race and stock
- Metamateriality and blood purity in Cervantes's Alcaná de Toledo / Rachel L. Burk
- The blood of others: breeding plants, animals, and white people in the Spanish Atlantic / Ruth Hill
- "Rude uncivill blood": the pastoral challenge to hereditary race in Fletcher and Milton / Jean E. Feerick
- African blood, colonial money, and respectable mulatto heiresses reforming eighteenth-century England / Lyndon J. Dominique
- Part II: Moral Constitution
- "His blood be on us and on our children": medieval theology and the demise of Jewish somatic inferiority in early modern England / M. Kindsay Kaplan
- Sor Juana's appetite: body, mind, and vitality in "First Dream" / Anna More
- Blood and character in early African American literature / Hannah Spahn
- Part III: Medicalizing the political body
- Flowing or pumping? The blood of the body politic in Burton, Harvey, and Hobbes / Robert Appelbaum
- Linnaeus and the four corners of the world / Staffan Müller-Wille
- "Who got bloody?": the cultural meanings of blood during the Civil War and Reconstruction / James Downs
- Colonial transfusions: Cuban bodies and Spanish loyalty in the nineteenth century / David Sartorius