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Slavery, Abolition, and Empire in JASNA’s Journals: A Bibliography

For almost thirty years JASNA has published essays in Persuasions and Persuasions On-Line that fall within the theme of this special issue, “Beyond the Bit of Ivory: Jane Austen and Diversity.”  This bibliography brings together past essays, from a variety of perspectives, examining the issues of slavery, abolition, and Empire in Jane Austen’s work and the Georgian era.  A number of the papers were presented at Annual General Meetings.  The research and historical perspectives provided in these essays have been a foundation for continuing scholarship.  A good starting point is Ruth Perry’s 1994 essay “Austen and Empire: A Thinking Woman's Guide to British Imperialism” and Kuldip Kaur Kuwahara’s “Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Property, and the British Empire.”  The essays collected here supplement and engage with the new scholarship published in the current issue of Persuasions On-Line.

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