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Adventures in domesticity : gender and colonial adulteration in eighteenth-century British literature
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- Creator
- by Sharon Harrow
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : AMS Press, [2004]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- vii, 265 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780404635459, 0404635458
- OCLC
- ocm51223585
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-260) and index.
- "Homely adventures" : domesticity, adulteration, and cultural mixing in Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton -- Domesticating the colonial heart : sentimentalizing colonial difference in Richard Cumberland's The West Indian -- Domesticating the colony : dramatizing domesticity in women's travel writing -- "A great deal better employed doing nothing" : the role of female labor and the danger of difference in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park -- Conclusion : monstrous adventures in domesticity : miscegenation and Englishness in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Subjects
- English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
- Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism.
- English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
- Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism.
- Cultural pluralism in literature.
- Difference (Psychology) in literature.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Colonies in literature.
- Race in literature.