Studies of skin color in the early Royal Society : Boyle, Cavendish, Swift

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Label

Studies of skin color in the early Royal Society : Boyle, Cavendish, Swift

Title remainder

Boyle, Cavendish, Swift

Statement of responsibility

by Cristina Malcolmson

Creator

• Malcolmson, Cristina

Subject

• England
• Great Britain
• History
• Human skin color -- Social aspects
• Human skin color -- Social aspects -- England
• Literature and science
• Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
• Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
• Royal Society (Great Britain)
• Royal Society (Great Britain)
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies | General
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
• 1600-1799

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity

Cataloging source

N$T

Index

index present

LC call number

Q41.L86

LC item number

M35 2013eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity