![]() ![]() Oxford: Oxford University Press.ĭavison, CM. (1995) ‘ “I Hasten to be Disembodied”: Charlotte Dacre, the Demon Lover, and Representations of the Body’, European Romantic Review 6.1, 75-97.ĭacre, C. (2000) Women’s Gothic: From Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley. ![]() ![]() JT Boulton (ed) Oxford: Basil Blackwell.Ĭlery, EJ. (1987) A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful. Dacre’s tale therefore ultimately functions as a caution against the woman’s emancipated and agential actions.īurke, E. I conclude by proposing that Dacre’s interracial sublime serves the purpose of demonstrating the permeability of European borders - a permeability that wreaks disaster. In the final section I trace the features of the interracial sublime. The arrival of the Moor within the house compounds the blurring of hierarchies and ordering. In section two I suggest that within the dissolving home/family we see the European woman, Victoria, subverting further the dissolution. In the first section it examines the crisis of European domesticity where the family and the parent/s fail in their responsibilities toward the children. Dacre, I suggest, traces this dissolution to the European woman’s assertion of agency by stepping outside spatial, familial, racial and sexual boundaries. This essay argues that Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya (1806) presents an interracial sublime in the form of the dissolution of the European home/family. ![]()
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