Uses work from African-American studies to rethink the status of race in Victorian England.

The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. Aiming to stand aside from the mess can produce a seemingly satisfying self-rig

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The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in th