Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Metamateriality and Blood Purity in Cervantes’s Alcaná de Toledo

Chapter 3 The Blood of Others: Breeding Plants, Animals, and White People in the Spanish Atlantic

Chapter 5 African Blood, Colonial Money, and Respectable Mulatto Heiresses Reforming Eighteenth-Century England

Chapter 6 “His blood be on us and on our children”: Medieval Theology and the Demise of Jewish Somatic Inferiority in Early Modern England

Chapter 7 Sor Juana’s Appetite: Body, Mind, and Vitality in “First Dream”

Chapter 8 Blood and Character in Early African American Literature

Chapter 9 Flowing or Pumping? The Blood of the Body Politic in Burton, Harvey, and Hobbes

Chapter 10 Linnaeus and the Four Corners of the World

Chapter 11 “Who Got Bloody?”: The Cultural Meanings of Blood during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Chapter 12 Colonial Transfusions: Cuban Bodies and Spanish Loyalty in the Nineteenth Century