Kimberly Anne Coles

Bad Humor

Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

"Race, in the early modern period, is a concept at the crossroads of a set of overlapping concerns of lineage, religion, and nation. In Bad Humor, Kimberly Anne Coles charts how these concerns converged around a pseudoscientific system that confirmed the absolute difference between Protestants and Catholics, guaranteed the noble quality of English blood, and justified English colonial domination. With particular consideration to how these ideas are reflected in texts by Elizabeth Cary, John Donne, Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Mary Wroth, and others, Coles reveals how science and religion meet nascent capitalism and colonial endeavor to create a taxonomy of Christians in Black and White"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9780812253733
• ISBN-10: 0812253736
• Artikelnr.: 62121708

Autorenporträt

Kimberly Anne Coles

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. "Souls drowned in flesh and blood": The Fluid Poetics of John
Donne and Christopher Brooke
Chapter 2. Bad Faith: The Color of Wrong Religion in Ben Jonson's The
Masque of Blackness and Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
Chapter 3. Moral Constitution: The Color of Blood in Elizabeth Cary's
Tragedy of Mariam and the New English Tracts
Chapter 4. "Soule is Forme": The (Re)formation of the Body in Edmund
Spenser's The Faerie Queene
Chapter 5. Moral Husbandry: Cultivating Right Religion in New Worlds
Coda. The One-Drop Rule
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments