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

• Author: Haschemi Yekani, Elahe.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2020.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (301 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Provincialising the Rise of the British Novel in the Transatlantic Public Sphere -- Familial Feeling -- The Rise of the Novel Reconsidered (Again) -- Entangled Tonalities -- Works Cited -- Part I: 1719-1807: Moral Sentiment and the Abolition of the Slave Trade -- Chapter 2: Foundations: Defoe and Equiano -- Insular Masculinity: Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe -- Oceanic Britishness: Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: Digressions: Sancho and Sterne -- Dashing Familiarity: Ignatius Sancho's Letters -- Eluding Solidarity: Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey -- Works Cited -- Part II: 1807-1857: Social Reform and the Rise of the New Imperialism -- Chapter 4: Resistances: Austen and Wedderburn -- The Will to Feel: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park -- Wilful Familiarity: Robert Wedderburn's The Horrors of Slavery -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: Consolidations: Dickens and Seacole -- Fa(r)ther from Home: Charles Dickens's American Notes and Bleak House -- (M)Other of the Nation: Mary Seacole's Wonderful Adventures -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Queer Modes of Empathy as an Ethics of the Archive -- Memory and Affect -- Ethics of the Archive -- Queering Modes of Empathy -- Works Cited -- Index.