Freedom's empire : race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity, 1640-1940 /
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2008.
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Table of 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.