Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England

by Kimberly Anne Coles

Race, in the early modern period, is a concept at the crossroads of a set of overlapping concerns of lineage, religion, and nation. In Bad Humor, Kimberly Anne Coles charts how these concerns converged around a pseudoscientific system that confirmed the absolute difference between Protestants and Catholics, guaranteed the noble quality of English blood, and justified English colonial domination.

Coles delineates the process whereby...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812253736
• ISBN13: 9780812253733
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"