The complexion of race
Subtitle: categories of difference in eighteenth-century British culture
By: Roxann Wheeler.
Series: New cultural studies
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Race awareness -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Difference (Psychology) -- History -- 18th century.; Race in literature.; Great Britain -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century.; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century.; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century.
Description: Wheeler (English, Ohio State U.) compares Enlightenment science's speculations on human variety in natural history with accounts in civil histories, travel literature, and fiction, finding that black skin was not the most damning characteristic used by Brits to elevate themselves above the colonized. While Brits did prize paleness, Wheeler shows th.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.