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Postlude

Mary Wollstonecraft to Mary Seacole

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2023

Jamison Kantor
Jamison Kantor
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Ohio State University
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A postlude acts as a précis of my argument about honor across the Romantic period. In the Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands – the popular 1857 autobiography from a Creole nurse known as “the Other Florence Nightingale” – we witness the complex legacy of feminist honor in the literature of the black diaspora. Building her reputation at the height of Britain’s imperial conquests, Seacole seems to embrace the “manly” liberal-republican values that Mary Wollstonecraft urged women to adopt. But Seacole also deliberately cultivates her outsider status, especially within the colonial borderlands’ autonomous black collectives, where mutualist activity happens beyond the sanctioned, Western apparatus of respect.

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FeminismWollstonecraftMary SeacoleChastityReputationBlack AtlanticMaronnage
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Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity , pp. 134 - 142
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Postlude
  • Jamison Kantor, Ohio State University
  • Book: Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity
  • Online publication: 23 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009127233.008
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  • Postlude
  • Jamison Kantor, Ohio State University
  • Book: Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity
  • Online publication: 23 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009127233.008
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  • Postlude
  • Jamison Kantor, Ohio State University
  • Book: Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity
  • Online publication: 23 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009127233.008
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