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John Thelwall's The Daughter of Adoption: A Tale of Modern Times is
a witty and wide-ranging work in which the picaresque and
sentimental novel of the eighteenth century confronts the
revolutionary ideas and forms of the Romantic period. Thelwall puts
his two main characters, the conflicted English gentleman Henry
Montfort and the Creole Seraphina Parkinson, through their paces in
a slave rebellion in Haiti, where they barely escape with their
lives, and in London society, where Henry almost loses his soul.
Combining political analysis with melodrama and flat-out farce,
Daughter expands the scope of the abolitionist novel, pushing the
argument beyond the slave trade to challenge empire and racial
superiority. Historical materials on Thelwall's life, the
abolitionist movement, and eighteenth-century educational theories
provide a detailed context for the novel.
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