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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.
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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 Warren (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 Brockden 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 (331)
14. Trickster Epic in Hopkins's Contending Forces (369)
V. Liberty's Ruin in Atlantic Modernism
15. Queering Freedom's Theft in Nella Larson (393)
16. Woolf's Queer Atlantic Oeuvre (413)
Conclusion (445)
Notes (455)
Bibliography (507)
Index (555)
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