@article{1430911,
      author = {Haschemi Yekani, Elahe,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1430911},
      title = {Familial feeling : entangled tonalities in early Black  Atlantic writing and the rise of the British novel /},
      abstract = {"The key idea of this book is to reevaluate the rise of  the British novel from Defoe to Dickens by reading it  alongside early Black Atlantic writings from Equiano to  Seacole. Elahe Haschemi Yekani profoundly argues that the  rise of bourgeois regimes of affect - from 18th century  sentimentalism all the way to the heteronormative model of  the Victorian family which still haunts us today - was  neither a national, nor a white project, but deeply  invested and entangled in transatlantic slavery and its  aftermath. Compellingly argued, and beautifully  written."--Lars Eckstein, Professor of Anglophone  Literatures and Cultures, University of Potsdam, Germany.  'Familial Feeling provides a necessary corrective to the  narrowly defined canon of great British Literature.  Haschemi Yekani makes us rethink the structures that gird  British literary epistemologies and opens our eyes to  changes long past due. Familial Feeling is not only  required reading for everyone who reads in the British  literary tradition, it is also a compelling, nuanced  inquiry into the construction of knowledge itself.' -  Michelle M. Wright, Longstreet Professor of English, Emory  University, USA 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},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58641-6},
      recid = {1430911},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
}