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

• Autore: Doyle Laura (Laura Anne)
• Pubblicazione: Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (593 p.)
• Disciplina: 823/.009355
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - History and criticism; English fiction - History and criticism; Race in literature; Liberty in literature; Modernism (Literature)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-553) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: A sweeping argument that from the mid-seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth, the English-language novel encoded ideas equating race with liberty.
• Titolo autorizzato: Freedom's empire
• ISBN: 1-283-02258-3; 9786613022585; 0-8223-8873-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777704703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: e-Duke books scholarly collection.