Freedom's empire:race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity, 1640-1940
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Duke University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Durham |
Publication Dates: | 2008. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xii, 578 p.: ; 25 cm. |
Publication Frequency: | Also issued online. |
ISBN: |
9780822341352 (alk. paper) 0822341352 (alk. paper) 9780822341598 (pbk. : alk. paper) 082234159X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | I712 |
CLC: | I712.074 |
Call Number: | I712.074/D754 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-553) and index. Atlantic horizon, interior turn: seventeenth-century racial revolution -- Liberty's historiography: James Harrington to Mercy Otis Warren -- The poetics of liberty and the racial sublime -- Entering Atlantic history: Oroonoko, Imoinda, and Behn -- Rape as entry into liberty: Haywood and Richardson -- Transatlantic seductions: Defoe, Rowson, Brown, and Wilson -- Middle-passage plots: Defoe, Equiano, Melville -- At liberty's limits: Walpole and Lewis -- Saxon dissociation in Brockden Brown -- Dispossession in Jacobs and Hopkins -- Freedom by removal in Sedgwick -- "A" for Atlantic in Hawthorne -- Freedom's eastward turn in Eliot's Daniel Deronda -- Trickster epic in Hopkins's contending forces -- Queering freedom's theft in Nella Larsen -- Woolf's queer Atlantic oeuvre. |