"A Very Strange Thought": Colonial Fantasy, Domesticity, and Property in The Female American.
As a female Robinsonade, The Female American casts a feminine gaze upon a landscape conventionally portrayed from and dominated by a masculine point of view. As the biracial daughter of an Indigenous American princess and an English plantation owner, she also performs a self-consciously hybrid ident...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 390 - 413 |
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University of Toronto Press
Apr2025
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