Race in Romantic Reformist Fiction: A Checklist
Race in Romantic Reformist Fiction: A Checklist
A. A. Markley, Penn State University Brandywine
The African and the Creole
Life in the West Indies:
Anonymous, The Excursion of Osman (1792)
Robert Bage, Man As He Is (1792)
Anna Maria Mackenzie, Slavery: or, the Times (1792)
Anonymous, Henry Willoughby (1798)
Charlotte Smith, "The Story of Henrietta," The Letters of a Solitary Wanderer (1800)
John Thelwall, The Daughter of Adoption (1801)
Ameliorative Treatments:
Maria Edgeworth, "The Grateful Negro," Popular Tales (1804)
Thomas Holcroft, Memoirs of Bryan Perdue (1805)
Africans in England/Europe:
Anna Maria Mackenzie, Slavery: or, the Times (1792)
William Godwin, St Leon (1799)
Maria Edgeworth, Belinda (1801)
Amelia Opie, Adeline Mowbray, or The Mother and Daughter (1804)
The Jew in Britain
Stereotypical Treatments:
Charlotte Smith, The Old Manor House (1793), The Young Philosopher (1798)
Thomas Holcroft, The Adventures of Hugh Trevor (1794-1797)
Maria Edgeworth, Belinda (1801), The Absentee (1812)
Challenges to the Stereotype:
George Walker, Theodore Cyphon; or The Benevolent Jew (1796)
William Godwin, St Leon (1799)
Maria Edgeworth, Harrington (1817)
Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (1819)