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Maria Edgeworth and abolition : critiquing character / Robin Runia.

9783031120787 (electronic bk.)
3031120787 (electronic bk.)
3031120779 (hardcover)
9783031120770 (hardcover)

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

©2022

English

1 online resource (ix, 121 pages).

10.1007/978-3-031-12078-7 doi

PR4647

823/.709

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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