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...

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Publicado en:	Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 81 - 103
Autor principal:	Barr, Rebecca Anne
Formato:	Literary Criticism
Publicado:	University of Toronto Press Jan2023
Materias:	Woman of Colour: A Tale, The (Book) Dominique, Lyndon J. Race in literature Literary characters Black women in literature
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