The cultural politics of blood, 1500-1900 /
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Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
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 AlcaÇı 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.