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Slavery and the Romantic Imagination
2013
Overview
When Jane Austen’s Sir Thomas Bertram reluctantly leaves his comfortable country estate to tend to his plantations in the Caribbean, his absence initiates the novel’s main action. It is no accident that this particular colony intrudes in a novel of domestic femaleBildung. For the British Empire in Austen’s day, the West Indies were no mere periphery: they drove imperial prosperity. The Bertrams’ financial well-being depends – like real Britons’, from peers to merchants and manufacturers, to the owners of ships and shops – on captive labour by enslaved Africans in the faraway tropics. What may seem incidental inMansfield Parktakes
