Abstract: This article revises the existing Marxist accounts of plantation capitalism by exploring how literary forms of nineteenth-century psychoactive plants (i.e., plants that are used to make alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, opium, etc.) could conversely contain agency and resistance. Putting Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814) and Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies (2008) in dialogue, I look for...