Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture - Jennifer DeVere Brody - Books - Duke University Press - 9780822321200 - November 23, 1998
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Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture


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Suitable for scholars in Victorian studies, literary theory, African American studies, and cultural criticism, this book looks at the construction of "Englishness" as white, masculine, and pure and "Americanness" as black, feminine, and impure.


232 pages, 13 b&w illustrations

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 23, 1998
ISBN13 9780822321200
Publishers Duke University Press
Pages 272
Dimensions 236 × 158 × 20 mm   ·   423 g
Language English  

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