Colonial Shadows: Tracing Imperial Legacy in Classic English Texts
Colonial Shadows: Tracing Imperial Legacy in Classic English Texts The silence that greeted Fanny Price’s inquiry about the slave trade in Mansfield Park echoes through centuries of English literature—a deafening quiet that reveals as much as any spoken word. When Jane Austen crafted this moment of uncomfortable stillness around Sir Thomas Bertram’s dining table, she captured something profound … Read more