Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society - Boyle, Cavendish, Swift

Informationen zum Autor Cristina Malcolmson is Professor of English at Bates College, USA. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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'sBlazing 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

Product details

• Authors: Cristina Malcolmson, Malcolmson Cristina
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2013
• EAN: 9780754637783
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-3778-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Literary and Scientific Cultur; Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity; Literary and Scientific Cultur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Englisch, Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800