Doyle, Laura
Freedom's empire race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity, 1640-1940 / [[Book] :] Laura Doyle. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2008. - 578 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
All age.
9780822341352 0822341352 (alk. paper) 9780822341598 (pbk. : alk. paper) 082234159X (pbk. : alk. paper)
GBA815665 bnb
014513992 Uk
American fiction--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Liberty in literature.
Modernism (Literature).
823.009355
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Freedom's empire race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity, 1640-1940 / [[Book] :] Laura Doyle. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2008. - 578 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
All age.
9780822341352 0822341352 (alk. paper) 9780822341598 (pbk. : alk. paper) 082234159X (pbk. : alk. paper)
GBA815665 bnb
014513992 Uk
American fiction--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Liberty in literature.
Modernism (Literature).
823.009355
/ D F