Jane Austen in the context of abolition : a fling at the slave trade

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Label

Jane Austen in the context of abolition : a fling at the slave trade

Title remainder

a fling at the slave trade

Statement of responsibility

Gabrielle D.V. White

Creator

• White, Gabrielle D. V

Subject

• Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Political and social views
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History
• Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Slave trade in literature
• Slavery in literature
• Political fiction, English -- History and criticism

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.7

Index

index present

LC call number

PR4038.P6

LC item number

W47 2006

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography