Life in Victorian London

Life in Victorian London
Fictions and Forms of Revolution: London 1848
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Friday, April 8, 2011

State of the Slave-Market?


Does it seem accurate to suggest that these advertisements are looking for "slaves"? How would people in 1847 have interpreted that language? What do you make of the reference to Turkey (one that came up in the first reading from Jane Eyre)? How might we perceive Becky Sharp and Miss Temple (or the other teachers at Lowood School) responding to these advertisements? What about Jane herself, toward the end of the reading? How might we read the language in this sketch from Punch against the language of slavery used in Bronte's novel? Are they the same? Different? (April 17, 1847)