Human Insufficiency - Natural Slavery Racialization of Vulnerability in Early Modern

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey B. Griswold
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032422701
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3242270-1
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, Colonialism & imperialism, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: general, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Racialization;Slavery;Renaissance;Vulnerability;Aristotle