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Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society: Boyle, Cavendish, Swift (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity) - Hardcover

Malcolmson, Cristina

 
9780754637783: Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society: Boyle, Cavendish, Swift (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0754637786 ISBN 13: 9780754637783
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

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 also brings new light to the relationship between early modern literature, science, and the establishment of scientific racism in the nineteenth century. Malcolmson demonstrates how unstable the idea of race remained in England at the end of the seventeenth century, and yet how extensively the intertwined institutions of government, colonialism, the slave trade, and science were collaborating to usher it into public view. Malcolmson 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.

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

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Verlag
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0754637786
ISBN 13 
9780754637783
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Anzahl der Seiten
250
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