Human Insufficiency
Natural Slavery and the Racialization of Vulnerability in Early Modern England
Contenu
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.
Informations bibliographiques
janvier 2025, env. 162 Pages, Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Anglais
Taylor and Francis
978-1-032-42270-1