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Author Elmer, Jonathan, 1961-

Title On lingering and being last [electronic resource] : race and sovereignty in the New World / Jonathan Elmer.

Imprint New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description viii, 260 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents On lingering and being last : Aphra Behn and the deterritorialized sovereign -- The future perfect king : Olaudah Equiano and the poetics of experience -- Was Billy black? Herman Melville and the captive king -- Jefferson's convulsions : archiving Logan -- Sovereignty, race, and melancholy in the transatlantic romantic novel -- Treaties, trauma, trees : the dream of Hadwin.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject American literature -- History and criticism.
English literature -- History and criticism.
Sovereignty in literature.
Race in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0823229408
0823229416 (pbk.)
9780823229413 (pbk.)
9780823229406

 
    
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