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<p>ABSTRACT:</p><p>This essay argues that Sydney Owenson employs botanical imagery in her novel, The Wild Irish Girl (1806), to represent many facets of Irish colonialism as well as the 1800 Act of Union that formed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Depicting the Irish as metaphorical plants, as food for Englandâs âbody politic,â Owenson gestures toward a symbolic cannibalism as just one form of Englandâs colonial consumption of Ireland within the novel, and highlights this notion further through comparisons between the Irish peasantry and African slaves in the West Indian colonies. Melding ideas of science and sensibility, as well as natural history and national history, Owenson subtly exposes Englandâs exploitation of Ireland in this Act of Union.</p>
The Eighteenth Century – University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Dec 7, 2018
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