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Author:

Dominique, Lyndon Janson, 1972-

Title:

Imoinda's shade : marriage and the African woman in eighteenth-century British literature, 1759-1808 / Lyndon J. Dominique.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xii, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Women, Black, in literature.
Marriage in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-280) and index.

Contents:

Altering Oroonoko and Imoinda in mid-eighteenth century British drama -- Amelioration, African women, and the soft, strategic voice of paternal tyranny in The grateful negro -- "Between the saints and the rebels": Imoinda and the resurrection of the black African heroine -- Creoles, closure, and Cubba's comedy of pain: abolition and the politics of homecoming in eighteenth-century British farce -- "'What' cried the delighted mulatto, 'are we going to prosecu massa?'": Adeline Mowbray's distinguished complexion of abolition -- "An unportioned girl of my complexion can...be a dangerous object." Abolition and the mulatto heiress in England.

ISBN:

0814292860 (cd-rom)
9780814292860 (cd-rom)
0814211852 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814211854 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)767565929

LCCN:

2011049519

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)