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  • Chapter 11 - Romanticism and the Novel(ty) of Race

  • Edited by Manu Samriti Chander, Georgetown University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
    Published online:
    21 November 2024
    Print publication:
    28 November 2024, pp 186-203

  • Summary

    Atesede Makonnen’s “Romanticism and the Novel(ty) of Race” argues that not only did the Romantic novel take up questions about race, but the novel form was itself racialized during the Romantic era. Makonnen studies in particular Clara Reeve and Anna Letitia Barbauld, who attempted to taxonomize various “species” of prose in a mirror of the categorization central to that of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century racial philosophy and science. For both Reeve and Barbauld, the evolution of the modern novel is a move away from other forms – tales and fables, for instance – linked to the primitive and non-European. Thus, both writers link literary development as a mark of cultural, national, and, implicitly, racial progress.