The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500–1900

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Metamateriality and Blood Purity in Cervantes’s Alcaná de Toledo....Pages 25-44
The Blood of Others: Breeding Plants, Animals, and White People in the Spanish Atlantic....Pages 45-64
“Rude Uncivill Blood”: The Pastoral Challenge to Hereditary Race in Fletcher and Milton....Pages 65-83
African Blood, Colonial Money, and Respectable Mulatto Heiresses Reforming Eighteenth-Century England....Pages 84-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
“His blood be on us and on our children”: Medieval Theology and the Demise of Jewish Somatic Inferiority in Early Modern England....Pages 107-126
Sor Juana’s Appetite: Body, Mind, and Vitality in “First Dream”....Pages 127-145
Blood and Character in Early African American Literature....Pages 146-167
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Flowing or Pumping? The Blood of the Body Politic in Burton, Harvey, and Hobbes....Pages 171-190
Linnaeus and the Four Corners of the World....Pages 191-209
“Who Got Bloody?”: The Cultural Meanings of Blood during the Civil War and Reconstruction....Pages 210-228
Colonial Transfusions: Cuban Bodies and Spanish Loyalty in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 229-250
Back Matter....Pages 251-274