عنوان

Jane Austen in the context of abolition :

(Number (ISBN

1403991219

(Number (ISBN

9781403991218

Number

b739258

Title Proper

Jane Austen in the context of abolition :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

"a fling at the slave trade" /

First Statement of Responsibility

Gabrielle D.V. White.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2006.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 231 pages ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-223) and index.

Text of Note

"The book argues that, amongst their other riches, Jane Austen's final three novels presuppose Britain's outlawing of its transatlantic slave trade in 1807. The book takes as a keynote William Cowper's question: 'We have no slaves at home - then why abroad?' Jane Austen's later fiction was written during the first decade of an interim period following the 1807 Abolition. It would be over sixteen years after her premature death in July 1817 before chattel slavery was abolished for British colonies in the 1830s. This book concludes that there is subtlety in Jane Austen's references to topics associated with the great abolitionist campaigning of her time, and that she avoided being counter-productive. It argues that, contrary to some interpretations such as those of Edward Said, Jane Austen undermined the status quo of chattel slavery and that she celebrated the abolition of the slave trade in her Chawton novels."--Jacket.

Austen, Jane,1775-1817-- Political and social views.

Austen, Jane,1775-1817

Austen, Jane.

Antislavery movements-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.

Literature and society-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.

Political fiction, English-- History and criticism.

Slave trade in literature.

Slavery in literature.

Antislavery movements.

Literature and society.

Political and social views.

Political fiction, English.

Roman.

Sklaverei (Motiv)

Slave trade in literature.

Slavery in literature.

Great Britain.

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Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

White, Gabrielle D. V.

Date of Transaction

20201204001619.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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