An edition of Freedom's empire (2008)

Freedom's empire

race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity, 1640-1940

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An edition of Freedom's empire (2008)

Freedom's empire

race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity, 1640-1940

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English
Pages
578

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-553) and index.

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Durham

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.009355
Library of Congress
PS371 .D69 2008, PS371.D69 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 578 p. ;
Number of pages
578

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16515946M
Internet Archive
freedomsempirera0000doyl
ISBN 10
0822341352, 082234159X
ISBN 13
9780822341352, 9780822341598
LCCN
2007033638
OCLC/WorldCat
166255103
Library Thing
5036105
Wikidata
Q57233388
Goodreads
2940748

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