Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents viii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. i Race and Liberty in the Atlantic Economy
6. 1 Atlantic Horizon, Interior Turn: Seventeenth-Century Racial Revolution 27
7. 2 Liberty’s Historiography: James Harrington to Mercy Otis Warren 57
8. 3 The Poetics of Liberty and the Racial Sublime 79
9. ii Founding Fictions of Liberty
10. 4 Entering Atlantic History: Oroonoko, Imoinda, and Behn 97
11. 5 Rape as Entry into Liberty: Haywood and Richardson 117
12. 6 Transatlantic Seductions: Defoe, Rowson, Brown, and Wilson 145
13. 7 Middle-Passage Plots: Defoe, Equiano, Melville 183
14. iii Atlantic Gothic
15. 8 At Liberty’s Limits: Walpole and Lewis 215
16. 9 Saxon Dissociation in Brockden Brown 231
17. 10 Dispossession in Jacobs and Hopkins 255
18. IV Liberty as Race Epic
19. 11 Freedom by Removal in Sedgwick 277
20. 12 “A” for Atlantic in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter 301
21. 13 Freedom’s Eastward Turn in Eliot’s Daniel Deronda 331
22. 14 Trickster Epic in Hopkins’s Contending Forces 369
23. V Liberty’s Ruin in Atlantic Modernism
24. 15 Queering Freedom’s Theft in Nella Larsen 393
25. 16 Woolf’s Queer Atlantic Oeuvre 413
26. Conclusion 445
27. Notes 455
28. Bibliography 507
29. Index 555