Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. CHAPTER 1 “Soules drown’d in flesh and blood” The Fluid Poetics of John Donne and Christopher Brooke 21
6. CHAPTER 2 Bad Faith: The Color of Wrong Religion in Ben Jonson’s The Masque of Blackness and Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 48
7. CHAPTER 3 Moral Constitution: The Color of Blood in Elizabeth Cary’s Tragedy of Mariam and the New English Tracts 69
8. CHAPTER 4 “Soule is Forme” The (Re)formation of the Body in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene 88
9. CHAPTER 5 Moral Husbandry: Cultivating Right Religion in New Worlds 117
10. Coda. The One-Drop Rule 140
11. NOTES 143
12. BIBLIOGRAPHY 181
13. INDEX 195
14. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 201