{"product_id":"freedoms-empire-9780822341598","title":"Freedoms Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA sweeping argument that from the mid-seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth, the English-language novel encoded ideas equating race with liberty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[I]nvigorate[s] the Atlantic as a category of literary and cultural study\u003cbr\u003ein the West. In an effort to reconceptualize the abstract idea of freedom in the Atlantic world, Doyle demonstrates something fundamental to modern liberty—that at its foundation, it is a race myth. . . . \u003ci\u003eFreedom’s Empire \u003c\/i\u003egenerates crucial questions and insights that substantively complicate the intellectual invention of Atlantic modernity and its literary history.” - Christopher C. Freeburg, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFreedom's Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is the most ambitious study of the novel and empire since Edward Said's \u003ci\u003eCulture and Imperialism\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . \u003ci\u003eFreedom's Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative history of the simultaneous articulation of race, freedom and empire in English-language literary and political practice.” - Corey Capers, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Colonialism and Colonial History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFreedom’s Empire\u003c\/i\u003e offers a unique perspective on Atlantic modernity. . . . Doyle shows that challenging the prevailing structures of literary criticism is imperative to a more nuanced understanding of what in an earlier collection Doyle termed ‘geomodernisms’. . . . Doyle’s study succeeds in its argument. . . . Impressively written and wide in scope, \u003ci\u003eFreedom’s Empire\u003c\/i\u003e shows persuasively how ‘novels and histories became partners in the project of narrativizing racial liberty.’” - Marisa Huerta,\u003ci\u003e African American Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Laura Doyle’s project in \u003ci\u003eFreedom’s Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is nothing short of upending the ways in which we have grown accustomed to reading, writing, and talking about the development of the English-language novel. It is an ambitious project, to say the least, and yet one in which Doyle is entirely successful. This is one of the most exciting literary studies’ interventions I have encountered in a long time, and my guess is that it will further alter the way in which we think about the seemingly discrete categories of the British and American novel. . . . This is a remarkable book, one that I would encourage any scholar of the novel in English to make space for on his or her bookshelf.” - Sarah Gleeson-White, \u003ci\u003eRocky Mountain Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFreedom’s Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold, exciting book. Laura Doyle shows how the call to move past the framing terms of nation and historical period will result in different readings not only of novels but also of the issues with which they engage. She demonstrates how challenging the structures of literary criticism can lead to a new transatlantic cultural history.”—\u003cb\u003ePriscilla Wald\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eContagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFreedom’s Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is a truly excellent work of scholarship, an important contribution to the study of the English-language novel, and a significant addition to the critical examination of the deep and varying entanglements of the discourses of race and modernity. It vitally enriches the growing field of Atlantic literary studies and will, I suspect, become one of the keystone texts of that field.”—\u003cb\u003eIan Baucom\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eSpecters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Laura Doyle’s study provides a powerful and persuasive historical ‘Atlantic world’ recontextualization of the dialectical relation of African American and Anglo-American narrative traditions. This imaginative reframing complicates and deepens our understanding of the ‘Black Atlantic’ and energizes her readings of black authors, including Pauline Hopkins, Nella Larsen, and others.”—\u003cb\u003eKevin K. Gaines\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFreedom’s Empire\u003c\/i\u003e offers a unique perspective on Atlantic modernity. . . . Doyle shows that challenging the prevailing structures of literary criticism is imperative to a more nuanced understanding of what in an earlier collection Doyle termed ‘geomodernisms’. . . . Doyle’s study succeeds in its argument. . . . Impressively written and wide in scope, \u003ci\u003eFreedom’s Empire\u003c\/i\u003e shows persuasively how ‘novels and histories became partners in the project of narrativizing racial liberty.’” -- Marisa Huerta * African American Review *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFreedom's Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is the most ambitious study of the novel and empire since Edward Said's \u003ci\u003eCulture and Imperialism\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . \u003ci\u003eFreedom's Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative history of the simultaneous articulation of race, freedom and empire in English-language literary and political practice.” -- Corey Capers * Journal of Colonialism \u0026amp; Colonial History *\u003cbr\u003e“[I]nvigorate[s] the Atlantic as a category of literary and cultural study in the West. In an effort to reconceptualize the abstract idea of freedom in the Atlantic world, Doyle demonstrates something fundamental to modern liberty—that at its foundation, it is a race myth. . . . \u003ci\u003eFreedom’s Empire \u003c\/i\u003egenerates crucial questions and insights that substantively complicate the intellectual invention of Atlantic modernity and its literary history.” -- Christopher C. Freeburg * American Literature *\u003cbr\u003e“Laura Doyle’s project in \u003ci\u003eFreedom’s Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is nothing short of upending the ways in which we have grown accustomed to reading, writing, and talking about the development of the English-language novel. It is an ambitious project, to say the least, and yet one in which Doyle is entirely successful. This is one of the most exciting literary studies’ interventions I have encountered in a long time, and my guess is that it will further alter the way in which we think about the seemingly discrete categories of the British and American novel. . . . This is a remarkable book, one that I would encourage any scholar of the novel in English to make space for on his or her bookshelf.” -- Sarah Gleeson-White * Rocky Mountain Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e I. Race and Liberty in the Atlantic Economy \u003cbr\u003e 1. Atlantic Horizon, Interior Turn: Seventeenth-Century Racial Revolution 27\u003cbr\u003e 2. Liberty’s Historiography: James Harrington to Mercy Otis Warrren 57\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Poetics of Liberty and the Racial Sublime 79\u003cbr\u003e II. Founding Fictions of Liberty \u003cbr\u003e 4. Entering Atlantic History: Oroonoko, Imoinda, and Behn 97\u003cbr\u003e 5. Rape as Entry into Liberty: Haywood and Richardson 118\u003cbr\u003e 6. Transatlantic Seductions: Defoe, Rowson, Brown, and Wilson 145\u003cbr\u003e 7. Middle-Passage Plots: Defoe, Equiano, Melville 183\u003cbr\u003e III. Atlantic Gothic \u003cbr\u003e 8. At Liberty’s Limits: Walpole and Lewis 215\u003cbr\u003e 9. Saxon Dissociation in Brockdon Brown 231\u003cbr\u003e 10. Dispossession in Jacobs and Hopkins 255\u003cbr\u003e IV. Liberty as Race Epic \u003cbr\u003e 11. Freedom by Removal in Sedgwick 277\u003cbr\u003e 12. “A” for Atlantic in Hawthorne’s \u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Letter\u003c\/i\u003e 301\u003cbr\u003e 13. Freedom’s Eastward Turn in Eliot’s \u003ci\u003eDaniel Deronda\u003c\/i\u003e 311\u003cbr\u003e 14. Trickster Epic in Hopkin’s \u003ci\u003eContending Forces\u003c\/i\u003e 369\u003cbr\u003e V. Liberty’s Ruin in Atlantic Modernism \u003cbr\u003e 15. Queering Freedom’s Theft in Nella Larsen 393\u003cbr\u003e 16. Woolf’s Queer Atlantic Oeuvre 413\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion 445\u003cbr\u003e Notes 455\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 507\u003cbr\u003e Index 555","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406050009431,"sku":"9780822341598","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/freedoms-empire-9780822341598","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}