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The tragic mulatta was a stock figure in nineteenth-century American literature, an attractive mixed-race woman who became a casualty of the color line. The tragic muse was an equally familiar figure in Victorian British culture, an exotic and alluring Jewish actress whose profession placed her alongside the "fallen woman." In Transatlantic Spectacles of Race, Kimberly Manganelli argues that the tragic mulatta and tragic muse, who have heretofore been read separately, must be understood as two sides of the same phenomenon. In both cases, the eroticized and racialized female body is put on public display, as a highly enticing commodity in the nineteenth-century marketplace. Tracing these figures through American, British, and French literature and culture, Manganelli constructs a host of surprising literary genealogies, from Zelica to Daniel Deronda, from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Lady Audley's Secret. Bringing together an impressive array of cultural texts that includes novels, melodramas, travel narratives, diaries, and illustrations, Transatlantic Spectacles of Race reveals the value of transcending literary, national, and racial boundaries.

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Women's writing. --- Mentally ill women in literature.

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Aimer et Mourir offers a wide-ranging selection of essays that collectively address how, from the Middle Ages to the present, the notions of love and death get inextricably associated with the narratives that are women's lives. Some of the essays tackle male writers' representations that link women and, in particular, women's sexuality, with death, resulting in the figures of the femme fatale, the woman in parturition, and the desiring vampire. A number of essays reiterate that women's hyper...

French literature --- Women in literature. --- History and criticism.

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"Includes articles by fourteen outstanding scholars who examine works by or about exceptional early modern Spanish women from diverse walks of life--from queens to poets, from actors to saints. Divided into four parts, these essays demonstrate how these women asserted their agency in the household, in the convent, on the stage, or at their writing desks"--

Women in literature. --- Spanish literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism.

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This powerful study reconceptualizes ideas of ethnic literature while investigating the construction of ethnic heroines, shifting the focus away from cultural politics and considering instead narrative or poetic qualities which involve surprising relationships between Anglo-American women's writing and fiction produced by Asian American and African American women authors.

American fiction --- Minority women --- African American women --- Asian American women --- Women and literature --- African American women in literature. --- Asian American women in literature. --- Minority women in literature. --- Heroines in literature. --- Women in literature. --- American literature --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Women minorities --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Heroines --- Afro-American women in literature --- Literature --- Women, Asian American --- Asian American authors --- History and criticism. --- African American authors --- Women authors --- Intellectual life. --- History and criticism --- United States --- Intellectual life --- African American women in literature --- Minority women in literature --- Heroines in literature --- Women in literature --- Asian American women in literature