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This book develops an intriguing reassessment of the rise of the British novel framework from an entangled transnational perspective
This book examines how both canonical and early Black Atlantic authors partook in shaping the tonality of British middle-class ideals of familial feeling in the shift from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century
Familial Feeling brings into conversation the postcolonial study of enslavement and empire, the narratological and aesthetic analysis of the novel form and a queer interest in the politics of emotions
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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1719–1807: Moral Sentiment and the Abolition of the Slave Trade
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1807–1857: Social Reform and the Rise of the New Imperialism
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About this book
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.
Keywords
- Postcolonial Literature
- Black Atlantic Writing
- Eighteenth-century Literature
- Nineteenth-century Literature
- The British Novel
- Open Access
- Literature and Cultural Studies
Reviews
“Haschemi Yekani’s ‘familial feeling,’ and thus exemplifies how these two monographs – indeed, all four discussed in this review – can profitably be read with and through one another. … Haschemi Yekani’s book is available online via SpringerLink as an ‘open access’ publication. … Much as one might be fond of hard-bound monographs … this mitigation of the economic and geographic barriers to Dickensian and other scholarship is clearly to be welcomed.” (Dominic Rainsford, Dickens Quarterly, Vol. 39 (3), September, 2022)
Authors and Affiliations
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Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Elahe Haschemi Yekani
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Familial Feeling
Book Subtitle: Entangled Tonalities in Early Black Atlantic Writing and the Rise of the British Novel
Authors: Elahe Haschemi Yekani
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58641-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58640-9Published: 22 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58643-0Published: 24 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-58641-6Published: 07 December 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 298
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Eighteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Race and Ethnicity Studies, British Culture, Comparative Literature