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<p>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. 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 <i>Robinson Crusoe</i>, and through gothic and seduction narratives of ruin and captivity, these text

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Author

Laura Anne Doyle

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822341352

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Fiction

Rating

3.5 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13