Print version: Dawson, Brent, 1984- Equality of Flesh : Materialism and Human Commonality in Early Modern Culture. First edition. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2024 281 pages ISBN 9781501775659
Includes bibliographical references and index
"No earthly thing is sure": Spenser’s slime and the colonial body -- "The fire that quickens Nilus’ slime": Egyptian mud in Antony and Cleopatra -- "Fellow creatures": Milton and the politics of material equality -- The "common and impure earth": La Peyrere, preadamite cosmopolitanism, and polygenetic racism -- "Infinite several kinds of creatures": Cavendish, Bergerac, race, and extraterrestrials -- Of mushroom men and rational creatures: Hobbes, Locke, and modern equality.