Fictions of Freedom: An English Antislavery Novel and the Art of Jean-Étienne Liotard, "Le Peintre Turc".

This article examines Edmund and Eleonora (1797), a neglected English antislavery novel by Edmund Marshall, and its use of the art of Jean-Étienne Liotard and the Enlightenment philosophy of John Locke. Marshall's novel concludes with an imagined gallery of paintings by Liotard, depicting the member...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Published in:	Huntington Library Quarterly Vol. 88; no. 3/4; pp. 339 - 361
Main Author:	Saillant, John
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	University of Pennsylvania Press Fall/Winter2025
Subjects:	Locke, John, 1632-1704 Artists Enlightenment Slave trade Fiction Empiricism Worldview Cultural relations Atlantic Ocean
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost