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BL
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Record Number
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842086
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Main Entry
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Wheeler, Roxann
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Title & Author
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Complexion of Race : : Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture /\ Roxann Wheeler.
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Publication Statement
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Philadelphia :: University of Pennsylvania Press,, 2000.
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Series Statement
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New cultural studies
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Page. NO
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1 online resource (x, 371 pages)
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ISBN
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0812200144
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: 0812217225
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: 081223541X
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: 1283210622
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: 9780812200140
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: 9780812217223
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: 9780812235418
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: 9781283210621
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction. The Empire of Climate: Categories of Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain -- 1. Christians, Savages, and Slaves: From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic -- 2. Racializing Civility: Violence and Trade in Africa -- 3. Romanticizing Racial Difference: Benevolent Subordination and the Midcentury Novel -- 4. Consuming Englishness: On the Margins of Civil Society -- 5. The Politicization of Race: The Specter of the Colonies in Britain -- Epilogue. Theorizing Race and Racism in the Eighteenth Century -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E.
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F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Acknowledgments.
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Abstract
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"The Complexion of Race marks a decisive break with literary history's binary version of eighteenth-century British radical thought."--Journal of Social History.
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Subject
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Difference (Psychology)-- History-- 18th century.
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English fiction-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
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Race awareness-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
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Race in literature.
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Civilization
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Difference (Psychology)
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English fiction
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Race awareness
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Race in literature
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Race relations
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Social conditions.
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Great Britain, Civilization, 18th century.
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Great Britain, Race relations, History, 18th century.
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Subject
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Great Britain, Social conditions, 18th century.
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Subject
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Great Britain
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Dewey Classification
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305.8/00941/09033
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LC Classification
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DA125
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