...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...

.... 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...

...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...

... American past, reveals, indeed satirizes, how our encounters with fictions of slavery have “calcified.” “Then how,” Levy-Hussen asks, “might we re-fresh and re-imagine our readerly task?” (133). One straightforward answer: expand the canon. Another: focus on novels that themselves theorize the narration...

...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...

... 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...

... ( 1999 ): 831 –52. Nation, Race, and Postmodern Gestures in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada CHRISTINE LEVECQ In his 1976 novel Flight to Canada, Ishmael Reed uses the history of slavery in the United States, as well as the genre of the slave narrative...

... of the Novel . New York: Oxford UP, 1987 . Barnes , Elizabeth . States of Sympathy: Seduction and Democracy in the American Novel . New York: Columbia UP, 1997 . Berman , Carolyn Vellenga . Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006...

... differentiates between those who feel and those about 7u?iom they feel may not be news to those who have studied anti-slavery literature. But with this book, Festa contributes a probing interrogation of the "distinction of sentimental feeling" and a wide-ranging analysis of the figures of speech...