Contribution to Book
“Rude Uncivill Blood”: The Pastoral Challenge to Hereditary Race in Fletcher and Milton
The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900
(2015)
Abstract
The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing hierarchies.
Keywords
- Blood in literature,
- Literature,
- blood
Disciplines
Publication Date
2015
Editor
Ralph Bauer, Kimberly Anne Coles, Zita Nunes, Carla L. Peterson
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Citation Information
Jean E. Feerick. "“Rude Uncivill Blood”: The Pastoral Challenge to Hereditary Race in Fletcher and Milton" The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900 (2015) p. 65 - 83 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jean-feerick/3/