{"title":"The British Museum and Fanny Price’s East Room","authors":"E. Peacocke","doi":"10.1353/sel.2019.0032","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Fanny Price’s cherished possessions in Mansfield Park’s East Room reflect the three major divisions of the British Museum’s collections in Jane Austen’s lifetime: books, antiquities, and botanical specimens. Like Mansfield Park, with its revenues from Antigua, the British Museum relied on the riches that its founder, Sir Hans Sloane, derived from his slavery-dependent plantations in Jamaica. Fanny’s quotations from William Cowper’s The Task (1785) link Sotherton, Mansfield Park, and the British Museum by illuminating how naval and colonial endeavors underpin the collections, the labor, and the transplantation that sustain stately homes and museums alike.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2019-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2019.0032","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract:Fanny Price’s cherished possessions in Mansfield Park’s East Room reflect the three major divisions of the British Museum’s collections in Jane Austen’s lifetime: books, antiquities, and botanical specimens. Like Mansfield Park, with its revenues from Antigua, the British Museum relied on the riches that its founder, Sir Hans Sloane, derived from his slavery-dependent plantations in Jamaica. Fanny’s quotations from William Cowper’s The Task (1785) link Sotherton, Mansfield Park, and the British Museum by illuminating how naval and colonial endeavors underpin the collections, the labor, and the transplantation that sustain stately homes and museums alike.
摘要:大英博物馆曼斯菲尔德公园东馆收藏的芬妮·普莱斯的珍贵藏品,反映了简·奥斯汀生前大英博物馆收藏的三大类:书籍、古物和植物标本。就像曼斯菲尔德公园从安提瓜获得收入一样,大英博物馆也依赖其创始人汉斯·斯隆爵士(Sir Hans Sloane)在牙买加依赖奴隶制的种植园获得的财富。范妮引用了威廉·考伯的《任务》(1785),将索瑟顿、曼斯菲尔德公园和大英博物馆联系在一起,阐明了海军和殖民时期的努力是如何支撑着豪宅和博物馆的收藏、劳动和移植的。
期刊介绍:
SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.