Cristina Malcolmson

Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society

Boyle, Cavendish, Swift

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Arguing that the early Royal Society moved science toward racialization by giving skin color a new prominence as an object of experiment and observation, Cristina Malcolmson provides the first book-length examination of studies of skin color in the Society. She places the genre of the voyage to the moon in the context of early modern discourses about human difference, and argues that Cavendish's Blazing World and Swift's Gulliver's Travels satirize the Society's emphasis on skin color.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780754637783
• ISBN-10: 0754637786
• Artikelnr.: 41249593

Autorenporträt

Cristina Malcolmson is Professor of English at Bates College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Race and the Experimental Method in the Society
2. Discussions of Race and the Emergence of Polygenesis in the Society
3. Boyle
Biblical Monogenesis
and Slavery
4. Race
Gender
and the Response to Boyle in Cavendish's Blazing World
5. Race
Gender
and the Imagination in the Philosophical Transactions
6. Gulliver's Travels and Studies of Skin Color in the Society
Conclusion: The Royal Society and Atlantic Studies
Appendix: Jonathan Swift's Debt to Margaret Cavendish
Bibliography
Index