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Strangers In Blood: Relocating Race In The Renaissance, Jean E. Feerick
Strangers In Blood: Relocating Race In The Renaissance, Jean E. Feerick
Jean Feerick
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 …
Botanical Shakespeares: The Racial Logic Of Plant Life In Titus Andronicus, Jean E. Feerick
Botanical Shakespeares: The Racial Logic Of Plant Life In Titus Andronicus, Jean E. Feerick
Jean Feerick
The early modern epistemic overlap between plant and person, Feerick’s article demonstrates, can expand critical work on early modern race both in and beyond Shakespearean drama. It centers upon an analysis of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, a play that brings plant bodies and human bodies into dizzying dramatic collision. In contrast to critics of the Enlightenment who have argued that the drive to classify plants into phyla and species helped to shape epistemologies of human difference, both gendered and racialized, this article works backward, examining how the premodern logic of botany helped to constitute a different racial idiom. During this …
The Alien Forms Of Race In Early Modern England, Jean E. Feerick
The Alien Forms Of Race In Early Modern England, Jean E. Feerick
Jean Feerick
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Spenser, Race, And Ire-Land, Jean E. Feerick