<i>The Politics of Silence: Mansfield Park and the Amelioration of Slavery</i>

Boulukos, George

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“…Let us return to the principal claim against Jane Austen levelled by Said; namely, that she, is ‘naive, complacent, and demurely without overt political opinion’ (Fraiman : 807; also Boulukos ). The key text in Mansfield Park to support his point is the conversation between Fanny Price, Sir Thomas's niece, and her cousin, Edmund, in which she asks ‘Did you not hear me ask him [Sir Thomas] about the slave trade last night?’ Edmund replies, ‘I did – and I was in hope the question would be followed up by others.…”

Section: Capital and The South: ‘Dead Silence’mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The charge is that Austin, through the ‘dead silence’ on slavery, is complicit to the project of British Empire (Boulukos ; Seymour et al. : 343) .…”

Section: Capital and The South: ‘Dead Silence’mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Mansfield Park is often referred to as the quintessential country estate novel through which Austen explores intricate relations of class status, including the symbolism of ‘land’, gender and family, and morality (Tuite ). It is also the novel mostly closely associated with critiques of British imperialism and the relationship between colonial expansion, capital accumulation and the changing shape and representation of class power (Boulukos ). Austen has stood accused of being an apologist for empire, legitimating the English ‘social mission’ by producing the amnesia of ‘resisting or avoiding that other setting’ (Said : 96; Spivak : 243) .…”

Section: Capital and The South: ‘Dead Silence’mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Where's the capital? A geographical essay

Jones

2014

British Journal of Sociology

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This paper is inspired by Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Piketty does a wonderful job of tracing income and wealth over time, and relating changes to trends of economic and population growth, and drawing out the implications for inequality, inheritance and even democracy. But, he says relatively little about where capital is located, how capital accumulation in one place relies on activities elsewhere, how capital is urbanized with advanced capitalism and what life is like in spaces without capital. This paper asks 'where is the geography in Capital' or 'where is the geography of capital in Capital'? Following Piketty's lead, the paper develops its analysis through a number of important novels. It examines, first, the debate that Jane Austen ignored colonialism and slavery in her treatment of nineteenth century Britain, second, how Balzac and then Zola provide insight to the urban political economy of capital later in the century, and third, how Katherine Boo attends to inequality as the everyday suffering of the poor.

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Section: Capital and The South: ‘Dead Silence’mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The charge is that Austin, through the ‘dead silence’ on slavery, is complicit to the project of British Empire (Boulukos ; Seymour et al. : 343) .…”

Section: Capital and The South: ‘Dead Silence’mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Capital and The South: ‘Dead Silence’mentioning

confidence: 99%

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2014

British Journal of Sociology

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Improvement, Development, and Consumer Culture in Jane Austen and Popular Indian Cinema

Kao

2020

Postcolonial Screen Adaptation and the British Novel

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Introduction: Provincialising the Rise of the British Novel in the Transatlantic Public Sphere

Yekani

2020

Familial Feeling

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In the introduction to Familial Feeling, Haschemi Yekani proposes a transatlantic reframing of Ian Watt’s famous work on the rise of the novel. Offering a critical overview of the intertwined histories of enslavement and modernity, this chapter proposes a focus on transatlantic entanglement already in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century to challenge the more prevalent retrospective paradigm of “writing back” in postcolonial studies. Introducing the concepts of familial feeling and entangled tonalities, Haschemi Yekani describes the affective dimension of literature that shapes notions of national belonging. This is then discussed in the book in relation to the four entangled aesthetic tonalities of familial feeling in early Black Atlantic writing and canonical British novels by Daniel Defoe, Olaudah Equiano, Ignatius Sancho, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Robert Wedderburn, Charles Dickens, and Mary Seacole. To provide context for the following literary readings, scholarship on sentimentalism and the abolition of slavery is introduced and significantly extended, especially in relation to the shifts from moral sentiment and the abolition of the slave trade in the eighteenth century to social reform and the rise of the new imperialism and colonial expansion in the nineteenth century.

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The Politics of Silence: Mansfield Park and the Amelioration of Slavery

Cited by 18 publications

References 29 publications

Where's the capital? A geographical essay

Where's the capital? A geographical essay

Improvement, Development, and Consumer Culture in Jane Austen and Popular Indian Cinema

Introduction: Provincialising the Rise of the British Novel in the Transatlantic Public Sphere

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