03739nam 2200721 450 991045696220332120200520144314.01-4426-6008-21-4426-8694-410.3138/9781442686946(CKB)2550000000043294(CaPaEBR)ebrary10488946(SSID)ssj0000541605(PQKBManifestationID)11355572(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541605(PQKBWorkID)10514630(PQKB)11398709(CaBNVSL)slc00227096(CEL)436426(MiAaPQ)EBC3276109(MiAaPQ)EBC4672501(DE-B1597)464116(OCoLC)1013939031(OCoLC)944176967(DE-B1597)9781442686946(Au-PeEL)EBL4672501(CaPaEBR)ebr11258168(OCoLC)756283754(EXLCZ)99255000000004329420160923h20102010 uy 0engurcn||||||a||txtccrStrangers in blood relocating race in the Renaissance /Jean E. FeerickToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2010.©20101 online resource (287 p.) 1-4426-4140-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Bloodwork -- 1. Blemished Bloodlines and The Faerie Queene, Book 2 -- 2. Uncouth Milk and the Irish Wet Nurse -- 3. Cymbeline and Virginia's British Climate -- 4. Passion and Degeneracy in Tragicomic Island Plays -- 5. High Spirits, Nature's Ranks, and Ligon's Indies -- Coda: Beyond the Renaissance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexStrangers 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.English literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismRace in literatureSocial classes in literatureBlood in literatureHuman skin color in literatureElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Race in literature.Social classes in literature.Blood in literature.Human skin color in literature.820.9/355Feerick Jean E(Jean Elizabeth),1968-896955MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456962203321Strangers in blood2004179UNINA