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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)