World ecology in Martineau’s And Gaskell’s colonial pastorals

buir.contributor.authorÇelikkol, Ayşe
dc.citation.epage125en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber1en_US
dc.citation.spage110en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber25en_US
dc.contributor.authorÇelikkol, Ayşe
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-10T12:42:59Z
dc.date.available2021-02-10T12:42:59Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literatureen_US
dc.description.abstractThe pastoral tends to offer a retreat from modern life, but Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell reverse this pattern. They both turn to the colonies to reconcile the pastoral mode with capitalism, and, in their pastoral depictions of colonial life, we witness that mode’s peculiar capacity to narrate what the environmental historian Jason W. Moore calls ‘the capitalist world ecology’ – the globally systemic way of putting nature to work in the service of capitalism. Set in natural environments marked by human influence, the pastoral is a mode that can register economic relations with their ecological dimensions. In Martineau’s Homes Abroad and Cinnamon and Pearls – tales in Illustrations of Political Economy – and Gaskell’s Mary Barton, the pastoral aestheticizes the role that natural environments play in the development of capitalism. Homes Abroad presents peaceful agrarian life in Van Diemen’s Land as a lucrative enterprise in accord with modernization. Turning to Ceylon, Cinnamon and Pearls imagines an organic capitalism in which the celebration of plant life goes hand in hand with emergent property borders. In Mary Barton, the final pastoral setting in Canada is home to peace and progress. The felled trees in that setting signal the appropriation of nature for profit in the timber trade. These works of fiction capture the accumulation of capital in rural and suburban areas, which was historically key to the emergence of capitalism. The pastoral’s ability to depict the capitalist world ecology reflects a preoccupation with historical forces that is already present in the mode’s roots in antiquity.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1093/jvcult/vcz055en_US
dc.identifier.issn1355-5502
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/55045
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcz055en_US
dc.source.titleJournal of Victorian Cultureen_US
dc.subjectHarriet Martineauen_US
dc.subjectHomes Abroaden_US
dc.subjectCinnamon and Pearlsen_US
dc.subjectIllustrations of political economyen_US
dc.subjectElizabeth Gaskellen_US
dc.subjectMary Bartonen_US
dc.subjectPastoralen_US
dc.subjectJason Mooreen_US
dc.subjectEcologyen_US
dc.subjectHistorical natureen_US
dc.subjectCapitalismen_US
dc.subjectEmpireen_US
dc.subjectCeylonen_US
dc.subjectVan Diemen’s landen_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.titleWorld ecology in Martineau’s And Gaskell’s colonial pastoralsen_US
dc.typeReviewen_US

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