| Description |
xii, 578 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [507]-553) and index. |
| Contents |
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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American fiction -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- History and criticism.
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Race in literature.
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Liberty in literature.
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Modernism (Literature)
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| ISBN |
9780822341352 alkaline paper |
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0822341352 alkaline paper |
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9780822341598 paperback alkaline paper |
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082234159X paperback alkaline paper |
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