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Race and romance : coloring the past
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"This study brings race and the literary tradition of romance into dialogue. It explores the literary and cultural genealogy of colorism, white passing, and white presenting in the romance genre an...
"This study brings race and the literary tradition of romance into dialogue. It explores the literary and cultural genealogy of colorism, white passing, and white presenting in the romance genre and provides a bridge between studies of early modern romance and scholarship on twenty-first-century romance novels"--
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- Creator
- by Margo Hendricks
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Tempe, Arizona : ACMRS Press, Arizona State University, 2022
- Physical Details
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- xix, 113 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780866986595, 0866986596, 9780866986946, 0866986944, 9780866986953, 0866986952, 9780866986953
- OCLC
- on1315577546
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Chapter One. Debating the Obvious -- Chapter Two. So Like Her Father -- Chapter Three. Settling an Isle, or and Englishman's Color -- Chapter Four. Seeing What You Want -- Chapter Five. Looking and Seeing -- Chapter Six. "Fictions of the Pose": Act I, Scene 2
Subjects
- Heliodorus, of Emesa -- Appreciation -- England.
- Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595. Gerusalemme liberata.
- Fairfax, Edward, -1635 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Neville, Henry, 1620-1694. Isle of Pines.
- Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
- Romances -- Adaptations.
- Romance fiction -- History and criticism.
- Race in literature.
- Literature and race.