Title Studies of skin color in the early Royal Society : Boyle, Cavendish, Swift / Cristina Malcolmson.

Imprint

London: Routledge, 2016.

Location	Call Number	Status
Monograph Collection	Q41.L86 M35 2016	AVAILABLE

Description	xii, 233 pages: color illustrations; 24 cm
Content	text txt
Media	unmediated n
Carrier	volume nc
Series	Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.
Note	Originally published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and index.
Contents	1. Race and the experimental method in the society -- 2. Discussions of race and the emergence of polygenesis in the society -- 3. Boyle, biblical monogenesis, and slavery -- 4. Race, gender, and the response to Boyle in Cavendish's Blazing world -- 5. Race, gender, and the imagination in the Philosophical transactions -- 6. Gulliver's travels and studies of skin color in the society.
Subject(s)	Royal Society (Great Britain)
	Human skin color -- Social aspects -- England.
	Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
	Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.