Jeffrey B. Griswold

Human Insufficiency (eBook, ePUB)

Natural Slavery and the Racialization of Vulnerability in Early Modern England

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

By depicting the human political subject as exceptionally vulnerable, literary and philosophical writers portrayed the English as needing care from bodies imagined to be less than human in their physical sufficiency and therefore predisposed to servitude.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000989977
• Artikelnr.: 68881190

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey B. Griswold is a scholar of early modern literature and political philosophy. His work has been published in Exemplaria, Studies in Philology, Renaissance Drama, Spenser Studies, The Spenser Review, and Critical Survey.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Frail Humanity in King Lear and Early Modern Aristotelian Political
Thought
2. Human Vulnerability and Natural Slavery in The Faerie Queene
3. Servitude and Human Negative Exceptionalism in Montaigne, La Boétie, and
The Duchess of Malfi
4. Unnatural Slavery and the Protection of White Women in Cavendish's
Assaulted and Pursued Chastity
5. Coda: Materializing Race and Salvaging Vulnerability in Jemisin's Broken
Earth Trilogy
Bibliography
Index