{"product_id":"9780813549910","title":"Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tragic mulatta was a stock figure in nineteenth-century American literature, an attractive mixed-race woman who became a casualty of the color line. The tragic muse was an equally familiar figure in Victorian British culture, an exotic and alluring Jewish actress whose profession placed her alongside the “fallen woman.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTransatlantic Spectacles of Race,\u003c\/i\u003e Kimberly Manganelli argues that the tragic mulatta and tragic muse, who have heretofore been read separately, must be understood as two sides of the same phenomenon. In both cases, the eroticized and racialized female body is put on public display, as a highly enticing commodity in the nineteenth-century marketplace. Tracing these figures through American, British, and French literature and culture, Manganelli constructs a host of surprising literary genealogies, from \u003ci\u003eZelica\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eDaniel Deronda\u003c\/i\u003e, from \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom’s Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eLady Audley’s Secret.\u003c\/i\u003e Bringing together an impressive array of cultural texts that includes novels, melodramas, travel narratives, diaries, and illustrations, \u003ci\u003eTransatlantic Spectacles of Race\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the value of transcending literary, national, and racial boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079848575216,"sku":"9780813549910","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780813549910_p0.jpg?v=1763742224","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780813549910","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}