Metonymic Chains: Shipwreck, Slavery, and Networks in Villette

Oceanic

“…We need to recognize the diverse ways in which "terrestrial" authors and women authors engage with wider networks of oceanic history and culture. 13 What results is an oceanic contrapuntal reading (à la Edward Said's analysis of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park), tracing the historically specific maritime discourses of migration, mobility, exchange, circulation, and ecology that underwrite the everyday life of nineteenth-century British narratives.…”