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

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A sweeping argument that from the mid-seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth, the English-language novel encoded ideas equating race with liberty.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Doyle, Laura (Laura Anne) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Colección:Duke backfile
Temas:
Geschichte 1640-1940.
American fiction > History and criticism.
English fiction > History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Liberty in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Roman américain > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > Histoire et critique.
Race dans la littérature.
Liberté dans la littérature.
Modernisme (Littérature)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
American fiction
English fiction
Liberty in literature
Race in literature
Freiheit > Motiv
Rasse > Motiv
Roman
USA
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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