The Pre-History of White Feminism in Amatory Fiction.
This article reads amatory fiction through the image of white women's tears, and it argues that amatory fiction assists in eighteenth-century racialization by idealizing a feminine affect that mobilizes passivity for status. A spectacle of sympathetic attention, white women's tears exemplify the aff...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 209 - 232 |
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University of Toronto Press
Apr2024
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