TY - GEN T1 - Transatlantic spectacles of race : the tragic mulatta and the tragic muse T2 - The American Literatures Initiative A1 - Manganelli, Kimberly Snyder LA - English PP - New Brunswick, NJ PB - Rutgers University Press YR - 2012 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn811641689 AB - "The tragic mulatta was a stock figure in nineteenth-century American literature, an attractive mixed-race woman who became a casualty of the color line. The tragic muse was an equally familiar figure in Victorian British culture, an exotic and alluring Jewish actress whose profession placed her alongside the "fallen woman."In Transatlantic Spectacles of Race, Kimberly Manganelli argues that the tragic mulatta and tragic muse, who have heretofore been read separately, must be understood as two sides of the same phenomenon. In both cases, the eroticized and racialized female body is put on public display, as a highly enticing commodity in the nineteenth-century marketplace. Tracing these figures through American, British, and French literature and culture, Manganelli constructs a host of surprising literary genealogies, from Zelica to Daniel Deronda, from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Lady Audley's Secret. Bringing together an impressive array of cultural texts that includes novels, melodramas, travel narratives, diaries, and illustrations, Transatlantic Spectacles of Race reveals the value of transcending literary, national, and racial boundaries."--Project Muse OP - 224 NO - "A book in the American Literatures Initiative"--Title page verso CN - PN56.W6 M35 2012eb SN - 9780813549910 SN - 0813549914 SN - 9786613904522 SN - 661390452X SN - 9780813549873 SN - 0813549876 SN - 9780813549880 SN - 0813549884 KW - Racially mixed women in literature. KW - Tragic, The, in literature. KW - Race in literature. KW - Jewish women in literature. KW - Femmes métissées dans la littérature. KW - Tragique dans la littérature. KW - Race dans la littérature. KW - Juives dans la littérature. KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Literary. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Ethnic Studies : African American Studies. KW - Jewish women in literature KW - Race in literature KW - Racially mixed women in literature KW - Tragic, The, in literature KW - Literatur KW - Mulattin : Motiv KW - USA KW - Electronic book. ER -