Freedoms Empire

by Doyle, Laura

• ISBN13: 9780822341352
• ISBN10: 0822341352
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-28
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"Laura Doyle's study provides a powerful and persuasive historical 'Atlantic world' recontextualization of the dialectical relation of African American and Anglo-American narrative traditions. This imaginative reframing complicates and deepens our understanding of the 'Black Atlantic' and energizes her readings of black authors, including Pauline Hopkins, Nella Larsen, and others."--Kevin K. Gaines, author of "American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Race and Liberty in the Atlantic Economy

Atlantic Horizon, Interior Turn: Seventeenth-Century Racial Revolution

Liberty's Historiography: James Harrington to Mercy Otis Warrren

The Poetics of Liberty and the Racial Sublime

Founding Fictions of Liberty

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

Atlantic Gothic

At Liberty's Limits: Walpole and Lewis

Saxon Dissociation in Brockdon Brown

Dispossession in Jacobs and Hopkins

Liberty as Race Epic

Freedom by Removal in Sedgwick

"A" for Atlantic in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

Freedom's Eastward Turn in Eliot's Daniel Deronda

Trickster Epic in Hopkin's Contending Forces

Liberty's Ruin in Atlantic Modernism

Queering Freedom's Theft in Nella Larsen

Woolf's Queer Atlantic Oeuvre

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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