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Susan Manly - Maria Edgeworth as political thinker: government, rebellion and punishment

Lectures in Intellectual History

Release Date: 04/25/2017

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The issue of slavery is a constant in Maria Edgeworth's thinking about questions of government, from the beginning of her writing career until the 1820s and 30s. In this paper, Susan Manly discusses the multiple elements to this seam of thinking, and in particular examines the importance of the reformist thinker Jeremy Bentham and his French interlocutor Étienne Dumont.