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Strangers in blood : relocating race in the Renaissance / Jean E. Feerick.
Author
Feerick, Jean E. (Jean Elizabeth)
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Language
English
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Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2010.
Description
xiii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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PR408.R34 F44 2010
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English literature
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Early modern, 1500-1700
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History and criticism
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Race in literature
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Social classes in literature
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Blood in literature
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Human skin color in literature
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Summary note
"Strangers in Blood explores, in a range of early modern literature, the association between migration to foreign lands and the moral and physical degeneration of individuals. Arguing that, in early modern discourse, the concept of race was primarily linked with notions of bloodline, lineage, and genealogy rather than with skin colour and ethnicity, Jean E. Feerick establishes that the characterization of settler communities as subject to degenerative decline constituted a massive challenge to the fixed system of blood that had hitherto underpinned the English social hierarchy.
Considering contexts as diverse as Ireland, Virginia, and the West Indies, Strangers in Blood tracks the widespread cultural concern that moving out of England would adversely affect the temper and complexion of the displaced individual, changes that could be fought only through willed acts of self-discipline. In emphasizing the decline of blood as found at the centre of colonial narratives, Feerick illustrates the unwitting disassembling of one racial system and the creation of another."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-257) and index.
Contents
Introduction : bloodwork
Blemished bloodlines and The faerie queene, book 2
Uncouth milk and the Irish wet nurse
Cymbeline and Virginia's British climate
Passion and degeneracy in tragicomic island plays
High spirits, nature's ranks, and Ligon's Indies
Coda : beyond the Renaissance.
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ISBN
9781442641402
1442641401
LCCN
2010549247
OCLC
612722290
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