Bad Humor : : Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England / / Kimberly Anne Coles.

Race, in the early modern period, is a concept at the crossroads of a set of overlapping concerns of lineage, religion, and nation. In Bad Humor, Kimberly Anne Coles charts how these concerns converged around a pseudoscientific system that confirmed the absolute difference between Protestants and Ca...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 1 “Soules drown’d in flesh and blood” The Fluid Poetics of John Donne and Christopher Brooke
  • CHAPTER 2 Bad Faith: The Color of Wrong Religion in Ben Jonson’s The Masque of Blackness and Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
  • CHAPTER 3 Moral Constitution: The Color of Blood in Elizabeth Cary’s Tragedy of Mariam and the New English Tracts
  • CHAPTER 4 “Soule is Forme” The (Re)formation of the Body in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
  • CHAPTER 5 Moral Husbandry: Cultivating Right Religion in New Worlds
  • Coda. The One-Drop Rule
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS