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Race and romance : coloring the past / by Margo Hendricks.
Van Pelt Library PR438.R65 H46 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hendricks, Margo, 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Romances--Adaptations.
- Romances.
- Romance fiction--History and criticism.
- Romance fiction.
- Race in literature.
- Literature and race.
- Heliodorus, of Emesa--Appreciation--England.
- Heliodorus.
- Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595. Gerusalemme liberata--English.
- Tasso, Torquato.
- Fairfax, Edward, -1635--Criticism and interpretation.
- Fairfax, Edward.
- Neville, Henry, 1620-1694. Isle of pines.
- Neville, Henry.
- Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689--Criticism and interpretation.
- Behn, Aphra.
- Genre:
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 113 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tempe, Arizona : ACMRS Press, Arizona State University, 2022.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Debating the Obvious
- ch. Two So Like Her Father
- ch. Three Settling an Isle, or and Englishman's Color
- ch. Four Seeing What You Want
- ch. Five Looking and Seeing
- ch. Six "Fictions of the Pose": Act I, Scene 2.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hendricks, Margo, 1948- Race and romance
- ISBN:
- 9780866986595
- 0866986596
- 9780866986946
- 0866986944
- OCLC:
- 1315577546
- Publisher Number:
- 99991070184
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