| Description |
xii, 578 p. |
| Series |
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-553) and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- History and criticism.
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Race in literature.
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Liberty in literature.
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Modernism (Literature)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780822388739 |
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0822388731 |
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9780822341352 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0822341352 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780822341598 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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082234159X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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