The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900 [electronic resource] /
Coles, Kimberly Anne.author.
Bauer, Ralph.author.
Nunes, Zita.author.
Peterson, Carla L.author.
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.
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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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Civilization-History.
World history.
Social history.
History.
Europe-History.
Great Britain-History.
Cultural History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Social History.
History of Science.
European History.
History of Britain and Ireland.