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This wide-ranging and convincingly argued study looks at the issues of and attitudes towards slavery in Jane Austen's later novels and culture, and argues against Edward Said's critique of Jane Austen as a supporter of colonialism and slavery. White suggests that Austen is both concerned and engaged with the issue, and that novels such as Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion not only presuppose the British outlawing of the transatlantic slave trade but also undermine the status quo of chattel slavery, slavery's most extreme form.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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‘We Have No Slaves at Home — Then Why Abroad?’
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The Chawton Novels
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The Context in which Jane Austen Wrote the Chawton Novels
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Back Matter
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' Jane Austen in the Context of Abolition is a wide-ranging, nearly exhaustive study of attitudes toward slavery in Austen's late novels. Arguing against Edward Said and others who have seen Austen as upholding colonialism and slavery, Gabrielle White shows, through provocative, convincing readings of Mansfield Park , Emma , and Persuasion , the subtle and direct ways that Austen's fiction instead supports abolition. White's fascinating study addresses one of today's most heated debates over this much beloved author. This book may permanently change the ways in which we read Austen.' - Devoney Looser, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA 'Gabrielle White has written an almost marvellous book...for those who would like a better understanding of the influences on Jane Austen's writing at this troubled time of Britain's history or for those who would like to understand more broadly the debates of the period, this is one for the bookshelves.' - Penny Nash, Sensibilities (The Jane AustenSociety of Australia)
About the author
GABRIELLE D.V. WHITE taught philosophy for the University of Leeds, UK and the Open University, UK. She was previously an English Teacher in Secondary Schools and is a former researcher for the University of Leeds and the British Library, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Jane Austen in the Context of Abolition
Book Subtitle: 'a fling at the slave trade'
Authors: Gabrielle D. V. White
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230506138
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-9121-8Published: 29 November 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-54266-6Published: 01 January 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50613-8Published: 29 November 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 231
Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Fiction