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Wage Slavery, Oriental Despotism, and Global Labor Management in Maria Edgeworth’s Popular Tales
- The Eighteenth Century
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 55, Numbers 2-3, Summer/Fall 2014
- pp. 193-215
- 10.1353/ecy.2014.0020
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Abstract
Maria Edgeworth’s short story collection Popular Tales (1804) includes strikingly similar scenes of slavery set in Jamaica, India, and England. This essay resists the tendency to view such scenes as mimetic representations of historical practices of human bondage, and instead argues that the resemblance between Edgeworth’s portrayals of slavery in Jamaica, India, and Cornwall is best understood as an expression of the historical linkages between these regions in the context of what I call the “global Jacobin crisis” of the 1790s.
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