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Doyle Laura (Laura Anne) |
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Titolo |
Freedom's empire [[electronic resource] ] : race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity, 1640-1940 / / Laura Doyle |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-02258-3 |
9786613022585 |
0-8223-8873-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (593 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - History and criticism |
English fiction - History and criticism |
Race in literature |
Liberty in literature |
Modernism (Literature) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-553) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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