Freedom's empire : race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity, 1640-1940 / Laura Doyle.
| Author/creator | Doyle, Laura |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Durham : Duke University Press, 2008. |
| Description | xii, 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-553) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007033638 |
| ISBN | 9780822341352 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822341352 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780822341598 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 082234159X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS371 .D69 2008 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |