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Conjugal love and the enlightenment subject: The colonial context of non-identity in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda
From: Novel
Date: 19961001
Author:McCann, Andrew
The publishing history of Maria Edgeworth's second novel, Belinda, registers the anxieties of a society intensely involved in debates over the abolition of slavery and the proper management of British colonies in the West Indies. By the time the novel went into its third edition in 1810, the depi ction of interracial marriage in the previous two editions (1801 and 1802) had been all but erased, principally at the suggestion of Edgeworth's father (Butler 494-95).1 In these earlier editions of the novel Juba, the African servant of a Jamaican plantation owner, marries an English farmer's ...
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