Doyle Freedom's Empire

Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8873-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 591 Seiten

A sweeping argument that from the mid-seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth, the English-language novel encoded ideas equating race with liberty.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doyle, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

I. Race and Liberty in the Atlantic Economy

1. Atlantic Horizon, Interior Turn: Seventeenth-Century Racial Revolution 27

2. Liberty’s Historiography: James Harrington to Mercy Otis Warrren 57

3. The Poetics of Liberty and the Racial Sublime 79

II. Founding Fictions of Liberty

4. Entering Atlantic History: Oroonoko, Imoinda, and Behn 97

5. Rape as Entry into Liberty: Haywood and Richardson 118

6. Transatlantic Seductions: Defoe, Rowson, Brown, and Wilson 145

7. Middle-Passage Plots: Defoe, Equiano, Melville 183

III. Atlantic Gothic

8. At Liberty’s Limits: Walpole and Lewis 215

9. Saxon Dissociation in Brockdon Brown 231

10. Dispossession in Jacobs and Hopkins 255

IV. Liberty as Race Epic

11. Freedom by Removal in Sedgwick 277

12. “A” for Atlantic in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter 301

13. Freedom’s Eastward Turn in Eliot’s Daniel Deronda 311

14. Trickster Epic in Hopkin’s Contending Forces 369

V. Liberty’s Ruin in Atlantic Modernism

15. Queering Freedom’s Theft in Nella Larsen 393

16. Woolf’s Queer Atlantic Oeuvre 413

Conclusion 445

Notes 455

Bibliography 507

Index 555

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Doyle is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture; editor of Bodies of Resistance: New Phenomenologies of Politics, Agency, and Culture; and coeditor of Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity.