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Freedom's empire : race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity, 1640-1940

Title
  1. Freedom's empire : race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity, 1640-1940 / Laura Doyle.
Published by
  1. Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Author
  1. Doyle, Laura (Laura Anne)

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Description
  1. xii, 578 pages; 25 cm
Subject
  1. American fiction > History and criticism
  2. English fiction > History and criticism
  3. Race in literature
  4. Liberty in literature
  5. Modernism (Literature)
  6. Roman américain > Histoire et critique
  7. Roman anglais > Histoire et critique
  8. Race dans la littérature
  9. Liberté dans la littérature
  10. Modernisme (Littérature)
Contents
  1. I. Race and Liberty in the Atlantic Economy -- 1. Atlantic Horizon, Interior Turn: Seventeenth-Century Racial Revolution -- 2. Liberty's Historiography: James Harrington to Mercy Otis Warren -- 3. The Poetics of Liberty and the Racial Sublime -- II. Founding Fictions of Liberty -- 4. Entering Atlantic History: Oroonoko, Imoinda, and Behn -- 5. Rape as Entry into Liberty: Haywood and Richardson -- 6. Transatlantic Seductions: Defoe, Rowson, Brown, and Wilson -- 7. Middle-Passage Plots: Defoe, Equiano, Melville -- III. Atlantic Gothic -- 8. At Liberty's Limits: Walpole and Lewis -- 9. Saxon Dissociation in Brockden Brown -- 10. Dispossession in Jacobs and Hopkins -- IV. Liberty as Race Epic -- 11. Freedom by Removal in Sedgwick -- 12. "A" for Atlantic in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter -- 13. Freedom's Eastward Turn in Eliot's Daniel Deronda -- 14. Trickster Epic in Hopkins's Contending Forces -- V. Liberty's Ruin in Atlantic Modernism -- 15. Queering Freedom's Theft in Nella Larsen -- 16. Woolf's Queer Atlantic Oeuvre.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-553) and index.
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  1. Also issued online.