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Author Coles, Kimberly Anne

Title Bad Humor Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (218 p.)
Summary Race, in the early modern period, is a concept at the crossroads of a set of overlapping concerns of lineage, religion, and nation. Bad Humor charts how these concerns converged around a pseudoscientific system that confirmed the absolute difference between Protestants and Catholics and justified English colonial domination
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Race -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History
Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History
Race awareness -- England -- History
Religion and literature -- England -- History
Body and soul in literature.
Race in literature.
Religion in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Body and soul in literature
English literature -- Early modern
Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Race awareness
Race in literature
Race -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Religion and literature
Religion in literature
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0812298357
9780812298352