The equality of flesh : materialism and human commonality in early modern culture /

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 per...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dawson, Brent, 1984- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2024].
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Table of Contents:
  • "No earthly thing is sure": Spenser's slime and the colonial body
  • "The fire that quickens Nilus' slime": Egyptian mud in Antony and Cleopatra
  • "Fellow creatures": Milton and the politics of material equality
  • The "common and impure earth": La Peyrère, preadamite cosmopolitanism, and polygenetic racism
  • "Infinite several kinds of creatures": Cavendish, Bergerac, race, and extraterrestrials
  • Of mushroom men and rational creatures: Hobbes, Locke, and modern equality.