Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture - Jennifer DeVere Brody - Books - Duke University Press - 9780822321057 - November 23, 1998
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Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture


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Using black feminist theory and African American studies to read Victorian culture, this title looks at the construction of "Englishness" as white, masculine, and pure and "Americanness" as black, feminine, and impure.


272 pages, 13 b&w photographs

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released November 23, 1998
ISBN13 9780822321057
Publishers Duke University Press
Pages 272
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   1.18 kg

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