“VERY NEARLY SMILING”: COMEDY AND SLAVE REVOLT IN <i>THE BARNABYS IN AMERICA</i>

Sutphin, Christine

doi:10.1080/09699082.2011.553269

Women's Writing

2011

DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2011.553269

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“VERY NEARLY SMILING”: COMEDY AND SLAVE REVOLT IN THE BARNABYS IN AMERICA

Christine Sutphin¹

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“Fraud, Fun, and Feeling”: Slavery, Industrialism, and the Mother-Machine in Frances Trollope's Fiction

Sheehan¹

2020

Victorian Literature and Culture

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For Frances Trollope, the nineteenth century was defined by what she perceives to be a pervasive mechanization of emotional life, a phenomenon similar to what Tamara Ketabgian has recently described as the “industrialization of affect” in this period. At the center of this phenomenon, for Trollope, is the disquieting specter of the mother-machine, a figure in whom the processes of mechanical production and maternal reproduction collide. The figure originates, in Trollope's fiction, in the character Juno, an enslaved woman whose alienation from her children under slavery serves as a major plot point in her groundbreaking 1836 antislavery novel The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw; or Scenes on the Mississippi. That figure is then reworked in the violent relationship between children and machines Trollope would go on to depict in her 1839–40 novel, The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy, one of the first industrial novels published in Victorian England. In these early fictions, Trollope documents what she perceives to be the mechanization of the maternal body under, alternately, slavery and industrialism, and its consequences for both the work and experience of care under nineteenth-century capitalism in its varied forms.

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“Fraud, Fun, and Feeling”: Slavery, Industrialism, and the Mother-Machine in Frances Trollope's Fiction

Sheehan¹

2020

Victorian Literature and Culture

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“VERY NEARLY SMILING”: COMEDY AND SLAVE REVOLT IN THE BARNABYS IN AMERICA

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