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

by Laura Doyle and Laura Doyle

Book Overview

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"