"This book is a history of the idea of human equality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature and culture. Looking primarily at literary authors like Shakespeare and Milton and contexts including the English Revolution and colonization, it argues that theories of equality in this period focus on bodily attributes"--
"This book is a history of the idea of human equality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature and culture. Looking primarily at literary authors like Shakespeare and Milton and contexts including the English Revolution and colonization, it argues that theories of equality in this period focus on bodily attributes"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Brent Dawson is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oregon. His work has been published in the journals ELH, New Literary History, and Renaissance Drama.
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Introduction Part One: Common Matter and Colonial Encounters 1. "No Earthly Thing Is Sure": Spenser's Slime and the Colonial Body 2. "The Fire that Quickens Nilus' Slime": Egyptian Mud in Antony and Cleopatra Part Two: Material Equality in Revolutionary Politics and Global Relations 3. "Fellow Creatures": Milton and the Politics of Material Equality 4. The "Common and Impure Earth": La Peyrère, Preadamite Cosmopolitanism,and Polygenetic Racism Part Three: High Equality and Racial Pseudoscience 5. "Infinite Several Kinds of Creatures": Cavendish, Bergerac, Race, and Extraterrestrials 6. Of Mushroom Men and Rational Creatures: Hobbes, Locke, and Modern Equality
Introduction Part One: Common Matter and Colonial Encounters 1. "No Earthly Thing Is Sure": Spenser's Slime and the Colonial Body 2. "The Fire that Quickens Nilus' Slime": Egyptian Mud in Antony and Cleopatra Part Two: Material Equality in Revolutionary Politics and Global Relations 3. "Fellow Creatures": Milton and the Politics of Material Equality 4. The "Common and Impure Earth": La Peyrère, Preadamite Cosmopolitanism,and Polygenetic Racism Part Three: High Equality and Racial Pseudoscience 5. "Infinite Several Kinds of Creatures": Cavendish, Bergerac, Race, and Extraterrestrials 6. Of Mushroom Men and Rational Creatures: Hobbes, Locke, and Modern Equality
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