Familial Feeling : Entangled tonalities in early black atlantic writing and the rise of the British novel 1st ed.

Author

• Yekani, Elahe Haschemi

Additional Author(s)

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Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030586416

Series

Subject(s)

• ENGLISH LITERATURE
• SLAVERY IN LITERATURE

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Abstract

This open access book discusses British literature as part of a network of global entangled modernities and shared aesthetic concerns, departing from the retrospective model of a postcolonial “writing back” to the centre. Accordingly, the narrative strategies in the texts of early Black Atlantic authors, like Equiano, Sancho, Wedderburn, and Seacole, and British canonical novelists, such as Defoe, Sterne, Austen, and Dickens, are framed as entangled tonalities. Via their engagement with discourses on slavery, abolition, and imperialism, these texts shaped an understanding of national belonging as a form of familial feeling. This study thus complicates the “rise of the novel” framework and British middle-class identity formation from a transnational perspective combining approaches in narrative studies with postcolonial and queer theory.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xi, 298 p.)

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

1. Introduction: Provincializing the Rise of the British Novel in the Transatlantic Public Sphere
2. Foundations: Defoe and Equiano
3. Digressions: Sancho and Sterne
3. Resistances: Austen and Wedderburn
4. Consolidations: Dickens and Seacole
5. Conclusion: Queering the Remembrance of Slavery Today

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00584/22	823.709352 Yek F	Online !	Available