Atlantic horizon, interior turn: seventeenth-century racial revolution
Liberty's historiography: James Harrington to Mercy Otis Warren
The poetics of liberty and the racial sublime
Entering Atlantic history: Oroonoko, Imoinda, and Behn
Rape as entry into liberty: Haywood and Richardson
Transatlantic seductions: Defoe, Rowson, Brown, and Wilson
Middle-passage plots: Defoe, Equiano, Melville
At liberty's limits: Walpole and Lewis
Saxon dissociation in Brockden Brown
Dispossession in Jacobs and Hopkins
Freedom by removal in Sedgwick
"A" for Atlantic in Hawthorne
Freedom's eastward turn in Eliot's Daniel Deronda
Trickster epic in Hopkins's contending forces
Queering freedom's theft in Nella Larsen
Woolf's queer Atlantic oeuvre.