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Autore |
Dominique Lyndon Janson <1972-> |
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Imoinda's Shade : Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 / / Lyndon J. Dominique |
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Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2012 |
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©2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 289 p. :) : ill. ; |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Marriage in literature |
Women, Black, in literature |
Race in literature |
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-280) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Altering Oroonoko and Imoinda in mid-eighteenth century British drama -- The soft, strategic voice of paternal tyranny : amelioration and African women in The grateful negro -- "Between the saints and the rebels" : Imoinda and the resurrection of the black African heroine -- Creoles, closure, and Cubba's comedy of pain : abolition and the politics of homecoming in eighteenth-century British farce -- "What? Are we going to prosecu massa?" : Adeline Mowbray's distinguished complexion of abolition -- "An unportioned girl of my complexion can...be a dangerous object." Abolition and the mulatto heiress in England. |
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