...RICHARD PEARCE ERIK DUSSERE, Balancing the Books: Faulkner, Morrison, and the Economics of Slavery (New York: Routledge, 2003), pp. 176, cloth, $65.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2003 2003 Fictions of the Balance Sheet: Faulkner, Morrison, and the Economics...

...Arif Camoglu Abstract This article makes a case for a critical engagement with the Ottoman institution of slavery and slave trade in its globalist rethinking of the rise of the novel. It argues that production of late Ottoman Turkish novelistic writing hinged on a domestic imagination to which...

.... Boulukos , George . “Maria Edgeworth’s ‘Grateful Negro’ and Pro-Slavery Senfimentalism.” Eighteenth-Century Life 23.1 ( 1999 ): 12 –29. Brown , Christopher Leslie . “Empire Without Slaves: British Concepts of Emancipation in the Age of the American Revolution.” William and Mary Quarterly...

... a firm grip on the historical referent of American chattel slavery. Focusing on Kindred, Wild Seed , and Parable of the Sower , which engage most directly with the history of American slavery, this essay argues that Butler's narratives of enslavement significantly diverge from the genre of the fantastic...

...Caroline Wilkinson Abstract This article radically reframes Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady in relation to the Underground Railroad, the transatlantic slave trade, US slavery, and racial housing segregation. Focusing on the house in Albany, New York, where Isabel Archer stays in the 1850s...

...Christopher Douglas Marilynne Robinson's Gilead is a kind of companion volume to Toni Morrison's Beloved, recollecting through tropes of memory the history of American slavery: as with Morrison's novel, these histories are to be productive of contemporary identities. Gilead in particular helps...

... narratives of modernity, Euro‐American imperialism, and neoliberal capital in Africa. In the process, they invite us to join the dots between domestic patterns of anti‐Black violence in the Black diaspora and Euro‐American destruction of African lives through the debilitating systems of slavery, colonialism...

...MADHU DUBEY JENNY SHARPE, Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women’s Lives (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2003), pp. 187. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 Not Quite Freedom: Leveraging Agency in Slave Women's Narratives JENNY...

.... Berman , Carolyn Vellenga . “Undomesticating the Domestic Novel: Slavery and the Creole Woman in British, French and American Fiction.” Diss. Brown U , 2000 . Berry , Laura C. The Child, the State and the Victorian Novel . Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1999 . Bibb , Henry...

... literature witnessed a proliferation of novels on slavery, a subgenre Ber- nard Bell describes as the neo-slave narrative. While such early scholarship on African American fiction of slavery as Ashraf Rushdy’s Neo-slave Narratives and Arlene Keizer’s Black Subjects featured historiographic...

...SARAH WINTER CAROLYN VELLENGA BERMAN, Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006), pp. 240, cloth, $39.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Transatlantic Abolition CAROLYN VELLENGA BERMAN, Creole...

...Daylanne English In chapter 3, “The Missing Archive (On Depression)”—the most original and exciting in the book—Levy-Hussen turns first to Lee's 1984 novel Sarah Phillips as an “exemplary text within an extra-canonical counter-tradition” (95). Clearly not a “contemporary narrative of slavery...

...MARION RUST EZRA TAWIL, The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006), pp. 254, cloth, $85.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Sympathetic Racialism EZRA TAM71L, The Making of Racial Sentiment...

...PHILIP GOULD ARTHUR RISS, Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006), pp. 246, cloth, $80.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Historicizing Personhood ARTHUR ~SS,Race, Slavery, and Liberalism...

.... Carey , Brycchan . British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment and Slavery, 1760–1807 . New York: Palgrave, 2005 . Carey , Brycchan . Brycchan Carey’s Website . 11 Apr . 2007 < http://www.brycchancarey.com >. Carretta , Vincent . “Deciphering...

...GENEVIEVE ABRAVANEL Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 Works Cited Armitage , David . Greater Britian, 1516–1776: Essays in Atlantic History . Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2004 . Baucom , Ian . Spectres of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History...

.... Sutherland Kathryn . London : Penguin , 1996 . Baucom Ian . Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History . Durham : Duke UP , 2005 . Bender John . Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England...

... the violence of the “blood-stained gate” of slavery through which Douglass passes at the beginning of his Narrative . Hartman wants to draw attention to “the ease with which such scenes are usually reiterated” (3). 17 Delany even named his first son Toussaint L'Ouverture. See Sterling 85–86...

... obviously subservient. This planter’s fantasy in which an emotional relationship produces a state of voluntary slavery runs throughout descriptions of Africans in the eighteenth century. Mercy, whether imagined in terms of other, unspeakably cruel masters or in the shape of deferred punishment...

...: Indiana UP, 1985 . Fleischner , Jennifer . Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women’s Slave Narratives . New York: New York UP, 1996 . Foster , Frances Smith . Witnessing Slavery: The Development of Antebellum Slave Narratives . Westport: Greenwood, 1979...