Freedoms empire : race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity 1640 1940 Atlantic horizon interior turn: seventeenth century racial revolution Libertys historiography: James Harrington to Mercy Otis Warren The poetics of liberty and the racial sublime Entering atlantic history: Oroonoko Imoinda and Behn Rape as entry into liberty: Haywood and Richardson Transatlantic seductions: Defoe Rowson Brown and Wilson Middle passage plots: Defoe Equiano Melville At libertys limits: Walpole and Lewis Saxon dissociation in Brockden Brown Dispossession in Jacobs and Hopkins Freedom by removal in Sedgwick A for Atlantic in Hawthorne Freedoms eastward turn in Eliots Daniel Deronda Trickster epic in Hopkinss contending forces Queering freedoms theft in Nella Larsen Woolfs queer atlantic oeuvre