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Beautiful Jewess (belle juive), 8, 14–15; Christian suitors and, 97, 103–104, 106– 108, 164; conversion and, 98, 103, 109, 206n16, 207n45; detection of identity, 99, 103; dissembling and, 95, 98; as femme fatale, 97, 148–150, 163, 213n26; power to bewitch and, 106, 109; as property of father, 95–96, 108, 109–110, 125; as public spectacle, 101–102, 104– 107, 109–110; racial ambiguity and, 95, 108; Renaissance dramas and, 95–98; self-exile and, 98, 110; sexuality of, 95, 97, 98, 104–106, 108–110; as victim, 94, 106, 110, 163 The Beautiful Jewess (B.T.), 213n26 The Beautiful Quadroon (Currier & Ives), 9, 11, 14, 58 Beckford, William, 26, 27 Belinda (Edgeworth), 104, 206n36 Bell, Caryn Cossé, 40 Berenice (Racine), 98, 101–102 Bernhard, Duke Karl, 13, 43, 44, 45, 46, 51 Bernhardt, Sarah, 151–152 Bitton, Livia E., 95 The Bondwoman’s Narrative (Crafts), 74, 203n31 The Bostonians (James), 160, 169, 173–177 Boucicault, Dion, 6, 14, 66, 71, 73–81, 83, 87, 88–90 abolitionism, 14, 38, 66; African American abolitionists, 69–71, 73 Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner), 40, 57 The Absentee (Edgeworth), 40, 99–100 Adams, James Eli, 131, 132 Agate, James, 92 Alliot, Paul, 41, 44 Anderson, Amanda, 130, 137 antimiscegenation laws: in Louisiana, 36, 42, 43, 54, 75, 88; in the West Indies, 20–21 Armadale (Collins), 16, 64, 75, 88, 148, 205n76 Armgart (Eliot), 210n114 Auerbach, Nina, 113 Aurora Floyd (Braddon), 64, 75, 88, 214n35 Austen, Jane, 29, 162 Autobiography of an Actress (Mowatt), 110–111 Badeau, Adam, 111, 118 Bajazet (Racine), 8, 9, 10, 57 Balée, Susan, 201n3 Balzac, Honoré de, 6, 15, 59, 94, 116–117, 121, 208n70 Barbier, Jules, 201n1 Barclay, George Lippard, 5, 189n13 Barnum, P. T., 68, 69, 73, 114 Beaumont, Gustave de, 38, 48, 52, 61, 200n90 Index 220 / index Daisy Miller (James), 168 Daly, Augustin, 1, 3, 4 Daniel Deronda (Eliot), 10, 15, 94, 120, 122–127, 143, 162–163, 165, 170–171, 186; Anna Clay Beecher’s sequel, 209n95; Civil War and, 124; genre and, 123; reviews of, 122–123; sensation fiction and, 123–124; Stowe’s response to, 210n104; Uncle Tom’s Cabin and, 124–126 Daughter of the Tropics (Marryat), 16, 64, 130, 147, 153–157 David Copperfield (Dickens), 130, 144 Davis, Tracy, 116 Dayan, Colin, 21, 194n47 Denslow, Van Buren, 65, 74, 77–78, 84, 87, 90 Desarzant, Anastasie, 5, 190n16, 195n3 Description de la partie française de l’isle Saint-Domingue (Moreau), 13, 17, 21–24, 27, 32 Dessalines, 28, 32, 33, 35 Dickens, Charles, 130, 144, 162 Didimus, H., 37, 42–43 Dillon, Elizabeth, 33 Disraeli, Benjamin, 6, 94, 95, 115–116 Dombey and Son (Dickens), 130, 144 Domestic Manners of the Americans (Trollope), 43, 44, 54 Douglass, Frederick, 69, 71 Drexler, Michael, 32, 33 Ducoeurjoly, S. J., 13, 22, 23, 24 Dudden, Faye E., 113, 116 Dumas, Alexandre, fils, 16, 64, 121, 130, 147, 151–153, 155–157 East Lynne (Wood), 75, 88, 205n76 Edgeworth, Maria, 14, 40, 99–104; correspondence with Rachel Mordecai, 99–100, 103–104 Eliot, George, 6, 10, 15, 94, 104, 122–127, 162–163, 165, 170–171, 186; depiction of Rachel, 126–127 “Épigramme” (Lanusse), 49 Estelle (Harris), 16, 158, 162–168, 186–187 Estlin, J. B., 69–70 L’Étrangère (Dumas fils), 16, 64, 130, 147, 151–153, 155–157 Fabella, Yvonne, 25, 28 “fancy girl” slaves, 14, 38, 39, 55–56, 82, 199n63–64 Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, 6, 14, 64, 65–66, 73–76, 78–81, 83, 87–91, 94, 120–121, 123 “The Bridge of Sighs” (Hood), 138 Brody, Jennifer Devere, 190n19 Brontë, Charlotte, 6, 15, 29, 30, 94; depiction of Rachel, 117–121 Brooks, Daphne, 4, 189n13 Brown, Henry “Box,” 69 Brown, William Wells, 14, 39, 57, 66, 69–71, 78, 196n7, 198n61 Brownstein, Rachel, 115 Buckingham, J. S., 57, 58 Bulwer-Lytton, Sir Edward, 14, 95, 99, 108–110, 206n21 Buntline, Ned, 12, 68 Burr, Aaron, 32, 35 Cable, George Washington, 40, 200n93 Carby, Hazel, 138, 212n12 Cassandra (Nightingale), 129 Castle Rackrent, 99–100 Les Cenelles, 48–49 Child, Lydia Maria, 6, 14, 39, 40, 45, 57, 59–61, 63, 66, 78, 128–130, 139–147 Christophe, Henri, 33 Clifford, Deborah, 140 Clinton, Catherine, 56 Clotel (Brown), 14, 39, 57, 66, 78, 88, 196n7, 198n61 Codes Noirs, 13; in Louisiana, 40; in SaintDomingue , 21 Collins, Wilkie, 64, 66–67, 75–76, 88, 123, 205n76 concubinage: as economic threat, 19; in Jamaica, 13, 20; public display...

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