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Familial Feeling: Entangled Tonalities in Early Black Atlantic Writing and the Rise of the British Novel

By Elahe Haschemi Yekani

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2021
ISBN
9783030586409, 9783030586416
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-58641-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3656936 bytes)
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
XI, 298\301
Time added
2021-01-06 05:41:07
ClassGender and Crime; British CultureLiterature; Eighteenth-Century Literature; Ninetee

Description

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.

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