Sentiment and Sexual Servitude: White Men of Feeling and The Woman of Colour.
The Woman of Colour (1808) refuses to provide its biracial heroine with "the usual meed of virtue--a husband !" This article argues that the novel's dismissal of the marriage plot results from its scathing critique of white men of feeling. Olivia's rejection of marriage acts as a Romantic-era versio...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 81 - 103 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Toronto Press
Jan2023
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