{"title":"Upstaging Abolition: Enlightened Hypocrisy in Maria Edgeworth’s Whim for Whim","authors":"R. Runia","doi":"10.1353/srm.2022.0044","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In Whim for Whim, Maria Edgeworth juxtaposes the depiction of a Black African according to the tropes of sentimental abolitionist rhetoric and staged West Indian dialect with depictions of both crooked, class-climbing servants and foolish, fashionable elites. The significance of this juxtaposition is highlighted through the play’s exploration of purported Illuminati principles, and it ultimately satirizes fashionable elites for their misappropriation of abolitionist discourse and the failure of their abolitionist commitments.","PeriodicalId":44848,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2022.0044","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:In Whim for Whim, Maria Edgeworth juxtaposes the depiction of a Black African according to the tropes of sentimental abolitionist rhetoric and staged West Indian dialect with depictions of both crooked, class-climbing servants and foolish, fashionable elites. The significance of this juxtaposition is highlighted through the play’s exploration of purported Illuminati principles, and it ultimately satirizes fashionable elites for their misappropriation of abolitionist discourse and the failure of their abolitionist commitments.
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Studies in Romanticism was founded in 1961 by David Bonnell Green at a time when it was still possible to wonder whether "romanticism" was a term worth theorizing (as Morse Peckham deliberated in the first essay of the first number). It seemed that it was, and, ever since, SiR (as it is known to abbreviation) has flourished under a fine succession of editors: Edwin Silverman, W. H. Stevenson, Charles Stone III, Michael Cooke, Morton Palet, and (continuously since 1978) David Wagenknecht. There are other fine journals in which scholars of romanticism feel it necessary to appear - and over the years there are a few important scholars of the period who have not been represented there by important work.
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