Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940

by Laura Doyle and Laura Doyle

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:082234159X

ISBN13:9780822341598

Release Date:January 2008

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:592 Pages

Weight:1.80 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.6" x 9.2"

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