Freedom's empire : race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity, 1640-1940 / Laura Doyle.

Author/creator Doyle, Laura
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Descriptionxii, 578 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [507]-553) and index.
LCCN 2007033638
ISBN9780822341352 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822341352 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822341598 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN082234159X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS371 .D69 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold