Antoinette
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 Posted: Sun 10 Feb 2008 20:12 Post subject: IMPOSSIBLE PURITIES |
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IMPOSSIBLE PURITIES Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture
Dr. Jennifer DeVere Brody
 
In her 1998 book, Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity and Victorian Culture (Duke University Press), Brody attacked the misconstrued notion of Victorian culture as exclusively white and masculine by reviving the historical traffic between England and the Americas. One of the characters Brody examined was the mixed-race Rhoda Swartz in William Thackeray's Vanity Fair, a character that has been ignored by many academics and literary scholars.
I heard about this book when I first met Dr. Brody during my college years. If you're interested, you can actually start reading her book here:
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=15039429 |
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