A new and synthesizing view of Anglophone history/literary history that shows that freedom was viewed as a racial inheritance and liberty the natural state of white people.
A new and synthesizing view of Anglophone history/literary history that shows that freedom was viewed as a racial inheritance and liberty the natural state of white people.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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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
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
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