Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Doyle, Laura (Laura Anne)

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

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Details

Description

xii, 578 pages; 25 cm

Subjects

• Liberty in literature
• Roman américain > Histoire et critique
• English fiction > History and criticism
• Roman anglais > Histoire et critique
• Race in literature
• Modernism (Literature)
• Modernisme (Littérature)
• American fiction > History and criticism
• Race dans la littérature
• Liberté dans la littérature

Bibliography (note)

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

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9780822341352 (alk. paper)
• 0822341352 (alk. paper)
• 9780822341598 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 082234159X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007033638

OCLC

• ocn166255103
• SCSB-5460724

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries