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Freedom's empire : race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity, 1640-1940 / Laura Doyle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doyle, Laura (Laura Anne)
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- English fiction--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Race in literature.
- Liberty in literature.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (593 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A sweeping argument that from the mid-seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth, the English-language novel encoded ideas equating race with liberty.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-553) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613022585
- 9781283022583
- 1283022583
- 9780822388739
- 0822388731
- OCLC:
- 763072999
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