 | Exquisite Mixture: The Virtues of Impurity in Early Modern England Subjects: England -- Civilization -- 17th century; Cultural fusion -- England -- History -- 17th century; Cultural pluralism -- England -- History -- 17th century; Exquisite Mixture examines the writing of Robert Boyle, John Locke, Daniel Defoe, and others in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain who advocated mixture as a critical element of this belief in English superiority: mixture could produce superior languages, new species, flawless ideas, and resilient civil societies. Wolfram Schmidgen is Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also the author of Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property. |
