Doyle, Laura <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-553) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> All age. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780822341352  0822341352 (alk. paper) 9780822341598 (pbk. : alk. paper) 082234159X (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA815665  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>014513992  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--History and criticism.<br/>English fiction--History and criticism.<br/>Race in literature.<br/>Liberty in literature.<br/>Modernism (Literature).
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823.009355 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label> / D F