The Politics of Silence: Mansfield Park and the Amelioration of Slavery

From: Novel | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: Boulukos, George E | Copyright information

Interpreting Slavery and Silence

In the wake of Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism (1993), the "dead silence" that follows Fanny Price's question about "the slave trade" to her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park has come to dominate critical interpretations of Austen's engagement with slavery, colonialism, and empire. The critical fascination with Austen's description of "silence" stems from the centrality of silence and speech to 1980s and '90s theories of i...

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