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Freedom's empire : race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity, 1640-1940
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- Summary
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A sweeping argument that from the mid-seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth, the English-language novel encoded ideas equating race with liberty.
Details
- Creator
- Laura Doyle
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xii, 578 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780822341352, 0822388731, 9780822388739, 082234159X, 0822341352, 9780822341598
- OCLC
- on1086539264
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 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