ELH., Volume 71Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 ELH publishes studies that interpret the conditions affecting major works in English and American literature. The journal seeks to emphasize the importance of historical continuity in the discipline of letters without sponsoring particular methods or aims. |
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... beauty . 25 Racial classifications were regularly translated into the hierarchical language of beauty and ugliness , and such standards of beauty were , in turn , considered as offering crucial information about the way in which the ...
... beauty . 25 Racial classifications were regularly translated into the hierarchical language of beauty and ugliness , and such standards of beauty were , in turn , considered as offering crucial information about the way in which the ...
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... beauty . " 32 Since beauty speaks the language of the absolute truth , to deny the proof of beauty is to deny truth . During the antebellum period , as the moral and political attacks upon slavery increased and as the threat of a free ...
... beauty . " 32 Since beauty speaks the language of the absolute truth , to deny the proof of beauty is to deny truth . During the antebellum period , as the moral and political attacks upon slavery increased and as the threat of a free ...
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... beauty itself . Rewriting beauty according to a Black standard , Rock asserts that the " fine tough muscular system , the beautiful , rich color , the full broad features , and the gracefully frizzled hair of the Negro " must be ...
... beauty itself . Rewriting beauty according to a Black standard , Rock asserts that the " fine tough muscular system , the beautiful , rich color , the full broad features , and the gracefully frizzled hair of the Negro " must be ...
Contents
Constructing the Sexual Subject of John Skelton | 29 |
Merrie John Heywood | 53 |
Wit Print Performance | 89 |
Copyright | |
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