On lingering and being last race and sovereignty in the New World / [electronic resource] :
Jonathan Elmer.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.
- viii, 260 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On lingering and being last : Aphra Behn and the deterritorialized sovereign -- The future perfect king : Olaudah Equiano and the poetics of experience -- Was Billy black? Herman Melville and the captive king -- Jefferson's convulsions : archiving Logan -- Sovereignty, race, and melancholy in the transatlantic romantic novel -- Treaties, trauma, trees : the dream of Hadwin.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American literature--History and criticism. English literature--History and criticism. Sovereignty in literature. Race in literature.