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The complexion of race : categories of difference in eighteenth-century British culture / Roxann Wheeler.
- Title
- The complexion of race : categories of difference in eighteenth-century British culture / Roxann Wheeler.
- Author
- Wheeler, Roxann
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2000.
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Details
- Description
- 371 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- New cultural studies
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- New cultural studies
- Subject
- 1700-1799
- Race awareness > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism
- Difference (Psychology) > History > 18th century
- Race in literature
- Conscience de race > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle
- Roman anglais > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Psychologie différentielle > Histoire > 18e siècle
- Race dans la littérature
- Civilization
- Difference (Psychology)
- English fiction
- Race awareness
- Race relations
- Social conditions
- Englisch
- Ethnische Beziehungen
- Literatur
- Rassentheorie
- Kolonie
- Rassenfrage
- Rassenverhoudingen
- English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism
- Race in literature
- Great Britain > Race relations > History > 18th century
- Great Britain > Social conditions > 18th century
- Great Britain > Civilization > 18th century
- Great Britain > Social conditions > 18th century
- Great Britain > Civilization > 18th century
- Grande-Bretagne > Relations raciales > Histoire > 18e siècle
- Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 18e siècle
- Grande-Bretagne > Civilisation > 18e siècle
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- England
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : The Empire of Climate: categories of Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain -- Christians, Savages, and Slaves: From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic -- Racializing Civility: Violence and Trade in Africa -- Romanticizing Racial Difference: Benevolent Subordination and the Midcentury Novel -- Consuming Englishness: On the Margins of Civil Society -- The Politicization of Race: The Specter of the Colonies in Britain -- Epilogue : Theorizing Race and Racism in the Eighteenth Century.
- ISBN
- 081223541X
- 9780812235418
- 0812217225
- 9780812217223
- LCCN
- 00025539
- 9780812217223
- OCLC
- 43562120
- SCSB-10552963
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library