Interracial Sex and Narrative Crisis in The Woman of Colour.
As an epistolary novel, The Woman of Colour (1808) sets certain formal expecta tions, but strikingly fails to fulfill them. At its climax, the letters of its biracial protagonist Olivia Fairfield come to an end and are replaced by a correspondence between the book's editor and his friend. This essay...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 65 - 81 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Toronto Press
Jan2023
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