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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781673103321

Autore

Feerick Jean E (Jean Elizabeth), <1968->

Titolo

Strangers in blood : relocating race in the Renaissance / / Jean E. Feerick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-4426-6008-2

1-4426-8694-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/355

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Race in literature

Social classes in literature

Blood in literature

Human skin color in literature

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.