Title

Seduction's Offspring: Resisting Sentimental Violence from Wilson to Wells

Authors

Sarah Sillin, Central Washington UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Department or Administrative Unit

English

Publication Date

Fall 2019

Abstract

This essay argues that tensions in sentimentalism proved generative for nineteenth-century African American women writers who rethink familiar portraits ofthe shift from the seduction plot to domestic fiction.

Comments

This article was originally published in African American Review. The full-text article from the publisher can be found here.

Due to copyright restrictions, this article is not available for free download from ScholarWorks @ CWU.

Recommended Citation

Sillin, Sarah. “Seduction’s Offspring: Resisting Sentimental Violence from Wilson to Wells.” African American Review, vol. 52, no. 3, 2019, pp. 277–92. doi:10.1353/afa.2019.0045.

Journal

African American Review

Rights

© 2019 Johns Hopkins University Press and Saint Louis University