Human Insufficiency

ISBN-13: 9781032422695 / Twarda / 2023 / 240 str.

Jeffrey B. Griswold

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Preface

   

Introduction

 

1. Frail Humanity in King Lear and Early Modern Aristotelian Political Thought

 

1. Human Vulnerability and Natural Slavery in The Faerie Queene

 

1. Servitude and Human Negative Exceptionalism in Montaigne, La Boétie, and The Duchess of Malfi

 

1. Unnatural Slavery and the Protection of White Women in Cavendish’s Assaulted and Pursued Chastity

 

1. Coda: Materializing Race and Salvaging Vulnerability in Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy

   

Bibliography

   

Index

O autorze

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.