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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Doyle, Laura (Laura Anne) (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Roman.
Rasse > Motiv
Freiheit > Motiv
Race in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Liberty in literature.
English fiction.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Modernisme (Litterature)
Liberte dans la litterature.
Race dans la litterature.
Roman anglais > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > Histoire et critique.
English fiction > History and criticism.
American fiction > History and criticism.
USA.
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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