Jane Austen and Edward Said: Gender, Culture, and Imperialism

Fraiman, Susan

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“…Nevertheless, Said accuses Austen of failing to explore the significance of Sir Thomas's comings and goings, thereby ensuring that we interpret the events in the novel and the lifestyles of the ‘higher classes’ as disconnected from and unconcerned by empire, and especially the role of slaves (then considered ‘capital’). As Susan Fraiman has put it, Said offers up ‘Austen as exhibit A in the case for culture's endorsement of empire’ and perhaps the writer ‘who made colonialism thinkable by constructing the West as center, home, and norm, while pushing everything else to the margins’ (1995: 809). But, Austen, Fraiman goes on to claim, is more subtle than Said appeared to realize and needs to be treated not as a source to be mined for facts, apropos Capital , but as a critical commentator on the connections between property, class and imperial power (also Tuite ).…”

Section: Capital and The South: ‘Dead Silence’mentioning

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“…Let us return to the principal claim against Jane Austen levelled by Said; namely, that she, is ‘naive, complacent, and demurely without overt political opinion’ (Fraiman : 807; also Boulukos ). The key text in Mansfield Park to support his point is the conversation between Fanny Price, Sir Thomas's niece, and her cousin, Edmund, in which she asks ‘Did you not hear me ask him [Sir Thomas] about the slave trade last night?’ Edmund replies, ‘I did – and I was in hope the question would be followed up by others.…”

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Where's the capital? A geographical essay

Jones

2014

British Journal of Sociology

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This paper is inspired by Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Piketty does a wonderful job of tracing income and wealth over time, and relating changes to trends of economic and population growth, and drawing out the implications for inequality, inheritance and even democracy. But, he says relatively little about where capital is located, how capital accumulation in one place relies on activities elsewhere, how capital is urbanized with advanced capitalism and what life is like in spaces without capital. This paper asks 'where is the geography in Capital' or 'where is the geography of capital in Capital'? Following Piketty's lead, the paper develops its analysis through a number of important novels. It examines, first, the debate that Jane Austen ignored colonialism and slavery in her treatment of nineteenth century Britain, second, how Balzac and then Zola provide insight to the urban political economy of capital later in the century, and third, how Katherine Boo attends to inequality as the everyday suffering of the poor.

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Section: Capital and The South: ‘Dead Silence’mentioning

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Section: Capital and The South: ‘Dead Silence’mentioning

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Where's the capital? A geographical essay

Jones

2014

British Journal of Sociology

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“…The point Austen makes is that whilst law and propriety are built upon the possession and control of land in England, the whole edifice of the estate, house and household at Mansfield Park, though apparently insulated and self-contained, is in fact underpinned and sustained by colonialism and slavery. Rather than validating a vision of England's uncontested imperial prerogative, Fraiman (1995) argues that the tensions and jealousies within Mansfield Park demonstrate Austen's intention to highlight the depravity within social and spatial relationships based on slavery, both abroad and at home.…”

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Entangled Landscapes and the ‘Dead Silence’? Humphry Repton, Jane Austen and the Upchers of Sheringham Park, Norfolk

Finch

2013

Landscape Research

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This paper explores two related aspects of designed landscapes in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries that are often neglected -first, how they might derive importance from their place within intersecting (auto)biographies of both designers and patrons at the micro level, and secondly, at the macro level, how they embody contemporary social and political concerns at a national and international level, including crucially, how they engage with global nature of contemporary economic and political networks. By exploring Humphry Repton's commission at Sheringham Park on the coast of north-east Norfolk, this paper will consider the importance of his relationship with it owners, Abbot Upcher and his wife Charlotte, to the design process and how the relationship drew upon shared social and political views which extended across to events on the

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“…(1993: 87). I do not want to enter the debate as to whether or not Austen approved of slavery (although it seems to me that the evidence points to her disapproval of it; see Fraiman, 1995). Said explains that:…”

Section: From Pride and Prejudice To Pride And Prejudice And Zombiesmentioning

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Zombie trouble: Zombie texts, bare life and displaced people

Stratton

2011

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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There has been a recent upsurge in texts featuring zombies. At the same time, members of western countries have become increasingly anxious about displaced peoples: asylum-seekers and other so-called illegal migrants who attempt to enter those countries. What displaced people, people without the protection of the state and zombies have in common is that both manifest the quality of what Giorgio Agamben calls 'bare life'. Moreover, zombies have the qualities of workers or slaves driven to total exhaustion. The genre of the zombie apocalypse centres on laying siege to a place that is identified as a refuge for a group of humans. In these texts it is possible to read an equation of zombies with displaced people who are 'threatening' the state. Indeed, the rhetoric used to describe these people constructs them as similar to mythical zombies. This article includes analyses of a number of zombie films including Shaun of the Dead, Fido and Undead.

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Jane Austen and Edward Said: Gender, Culture, and Imperialism

Cited by 90 publications

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Where's the capital? A geographical essay

Where's the capital? A geographical essay

Entangled Landscapes and the ‘Dead Silence’? Humphry Repton, Jane Austen and the Upchers of Sheringham Park, Norfolk

Zombie trouble: Zombie texts, bare life and displaced people

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