Imoinda's shade : marriage and the African woman in eighteenth-century British literature, 1759-1808 /
Dominique, Lyndon Janson,1972-
Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-280) and index.
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.
English literature
Race in literature.
Women, Black, in literature.
Marriage in literature.