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Freedom's empire : race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity, 1640-1940
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| Format : | Book |
| Language : | anglais |
| Title statement : | Freedom's empire : race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity, 1640-1940 / Laura Doyle |
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Durham, London :
Duke University Press
, cop. 2008 |
| Physical Description : | 1 vol. (XII- 578 p.) |
| Content : | 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 |
| Comprend : | 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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| Bibliography : | Notes et bibliogr. p. [453]-553. Index |
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| ISBN : | 978-0-8223-4135-2 0-8223-4135-2 978-0-8223-4159-8 0-8223-4159-X |