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Quotes/references on black skin in Victorian times. Anyone know of anything?

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suwoo · 04/04/2011 11:40

I need a quote for my essay.The woman is repellent as her skin is 'swarthy'. I need some kind of quote/reference to show how this was a 'normal' view by a victorian upper class male. I have the Beauty Myth and have been looking through bell hooks publications but I am yet to find anything. I don't want anything major, but I need somerthing more than an anecdotal comment from me, that this perception was a norm IYSWIM. Ta

(SGM, I can't find the full text on JSTOR or MLA as yet of the ones your DH suggested)

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TeiTetua · 04/04/2011 13:31

Maybe not always.

^Her skin excell'd the raven plume,
Her breath the fragrant orange bloom,
Her eye the tropic beam:
Soft was her lip as silken down,
And mild her look as ev'ning sun
That gilds the Cobre stream.^

("The Sable Venus" by Bryan Edwards)

dittany · 04/04/2011 12:05

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MissMontoya · 04/04/2011 11:57

Have you tried Toni Morrison's 'Whiteness and the literary imagination'?

dittany · 04/04/2011 11:56

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