Maria Edgeworth and abolition : critiquing character / Robin Runia.
2022
PR4647
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Title
Maria Edgeworth and abolition : critiquing character / Robin Runia.
Author
Runia, Robin, author.
ISBN
9783031120787 (electronic bk.)
3031120787 (electronic bk.)
3031120779 (hardcover)
9783031120770 (hardcover)
3031120787 (electronic bk.)
3031120779 (hardcover)
9783031120770 (hardcover)
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 121 pages).
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10.1007/978-3-031-12078-7 doi
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PR4647
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.709
Summary
This Palgrave Pivot offers new readings of Maria Edgeworths representations of slavery. It shows how Edgeworth employed satiric technique and intertextual allusion to represent discourses of slavery and abolition as a litmus test of character one that she invites readers to use on themselves. Over the course of her career, Edgeworth repeatedly indicted hypocritical and hyperbolic misappropriation of the sentimental rhetoric that dominated the slavery debate. This book offers new readings of canonical Edgeworth texts as well as of largely neglected works, including: Whim for Whim, "The Good Aunt", Belinda, "The Grateful Negro", "The Two Guardians", and Harry and Lucy Continued. It also offers an unprecedented deep-dive into an important Romantic Era woman writers engagement with discourses of slavery and abolition. Robin Runia is Associate Professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana, USA. She has published numerous articles and chapters exploring gender and race in the literature of the long eighteenth century.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed January 4, 2023).
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Palgrave pivot.
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction: Edgeworth and Abolition
2 Upstaging Abolition: Enlightened Hypocrisy in Whim for Whim
3 "The Appearance of Virtue" : Reading Abolition in Belinda
4 "The Good Aunt" : An Education in Abolition
5 Parodic Intervention in "The Grateful Negro"
6 Conclusion: Erasing Abolition in "The Two Guardians" and Harry and Lucy Concluded.
2 Upstaging Abolition: Enlightened Hypocrisy in Whim for Whim
3 "The Appearance of Virtue" : Reading Abolition in Belinda
4 "The Good Aunt" : An Education in Abolition
5 Parodic Intervention in "The Grateful Negro"
6 Conclusion: Erasing Abolition in "The Two Guardians" and Harry and Lucy Concluded.