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c o n t e n t s Acknowlegments vii Introduction 1 1. On Lingering and Being Last: Aphra Behn and the Deterritorialized Sovereign 21 2. The Future Perfect King: Olaudah Equiano and the Poetics of Experience 50 3. Was Billy Black? Herman Melville and the Captive King 78 4. Jefferson’s Convulsions: Archiving Logan 118 5. Sovereignty, Race, and Melancholy in the Transatlantic Romantic Novel 147 6. Treaties, Trauma, Trees: The Dream of Hadwin 187 Notes 219 Index 249 v ...

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