Creole Crossings : : Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery / / Carolyn Vellenga Berman.

The character of the Creole woman—the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier—is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French, British, and American literature. In Creole Crossings, Carolyn Vellenga Berman examines the use of this recurring figure in such canonical novels...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2005
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (254 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Domestic Fiction and Colonial Slavery
  • Chapter One. "Creoles and Creolified"
  • Chapter Two. Creole Nation: Paul et Virginie
  • Chapter Three. Revising Virginia: Belinda, Indiana, and La Pille aux yeux d 'or
  • Chapter Four. Colonial Madness in Jane Eyre
  • Chapter Five. Legitimate Families: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index