Doyle Laura Doyle

Freedom's Empire (eBook, PDF)

Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940

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Produktbeschreibung

In this pathbreaking work of scholarship, Laura Doyle reveals the central, formative role of race in the development of a transnational, English-language literature over three centuries. Identifying a recurring freedom plot organized around an Atlantic Ocean crossing, Doyle shows how this plot structures the texts of both African-Atlantic and Anglo-Atlantic writers and how it takes shape by way of submerged intertextual exchanges between the two traditions. For Anglo-Atlantic writers, Doyle locates the origins of this narrative in the seventeenth century. She argues that members of Parliament, religious refugees, and new Atlantic merchants together generated a racial rhetoric by which the English fashioned themselves as a "e;native,"e; "e;freedom-loving,"e; "e;Anglo-Saxon"e; people struggling against a tyrannical foreign king. Stories of a near ruinous yet triumphant Atlantic passage to freedom came to provide the narrative expression of this heroic Anglo-Saxon identity-in novels, memoirs, pamphlets, and national histories. At the same time, as Doyle traces through figures such as Friday in Robinson Crusoe, and through gothic and seduction narratives of ruin and captivity, these texts covertly register, distort, or appropriate the black Atlantic experience. African-Atlantic authors seize back the freedom plot, placing their agency at the origin of both their own and whites' survival on the Atlantic. They also shrewdly expose the ways that their narratives have been "e;framed"e; by the Anglo-Atlantic tradition, even though their labor has provided the enabling condition for that tradition.Doyle brings together authors often separated by nation, race, and period, including Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, Olaudah Equiano, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Wilson, Pauline Hopkins, George Eliot, and Nella Larsen. In so doing, she reassesses the strategies of early women novelists, reinterprets the significance of rape and incest in the novel, and measures the power of race in the modern English-language imagination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 591
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822388739
• Artikelnr.: 54815099

Autorenporträt

Laura Doyle

Inhaltsangabe

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