{"product_id":"freedoms-empire-race-and-the-rise-of-the-novel-in-atlantic-modernity-1640-1940-paperback","title":"Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaura Doyle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. For Anglo-Atlantic writers, Doyle locates the origins of this narrative in the seventeenth century. She argues that members of Parliament, religious refugees, and new Atlantic merchants together generated a racial rhetoric by which the English fashioned themselves as a \"native,\" \"freedom-loving,\" \"Anglo-Saxon\" people struggling against a tyrannical foreign king. Stories of a near ruinous yet triumphant Atlantic passage to freedom came to provide the narrative expression of this heroic Anglo-Saxon identity-in novels, memoirs, pamphlets, and national histories. At the same time, as Doyle traces through figures such as Friday in \u003ci\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e, and through gothic and seduction narratives of ruin and captivity, these texts covertly register, distort, or appropriate the black Atlantic experience. African-Atlantic authors seize back the freedom plot, placing their agency at the origin of both their own and whites' survival on the Atlantic. They also shrewdly expose the ways that their narratives have been \"framed\" by the Anglo-Atlantic tradition, even though their labor has provided the enabling condition for that tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoyle brings together authors often separated by nation, race, and period, including Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, Olaudah Equiano, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Wilson, Pauline Hopkins, George Eliot, and Nella Larsen. In so doing, she reassesses the strategies of early women novelists, reinterprets the significance of rape and incest in the novel, and measures the power of race in the modern English-language imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFreedom's Empire\" 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.\"--Priscilla Wald, author of \"Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Doyle is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e; editor of \u003ci\u003eBodies of Resistance: New Phenomenologies of Politics, Agency, and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e; and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eGeomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 592\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.22 x 9.17 x 6.63 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 11, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47500009439453,"sku":"9780822341598","price":71.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/M9hT38zfJ_9780822341598.webp?v=1772012327","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/freedoms-empire-race-and-the-rise-of-the-novel-in-atlantic-modernity-1640-1940-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}