Transoceanic America: Risk, Writing, and Revolution in the Global Pacific

ISBN-13: 9780198840893 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 304 str.

Michelle Burnham

Opis

This volume explores the role of the Pacific Ocean in the American Revolution and its influence on early American culture and literature. It studies the transoceanic connections between the Pacific and Atlantic and the political and literary developments that accompanied the period's explosion in global maritime travel.

Recenzje

Through this new vision, the author revisits both canonical and noncanonical texts and reconsiders issues of empire, slavery, cannibalism, revolution, consumption, and the female body. What Burnham ultimately offers is a new sense of American literary history grounded in the networks of commercial, political, and textual ties and derived from the vast and intertwined water world of the Atlantic and the Pacific. ... Highly recommended. Y. Shu, CHOICE

O autorze

Michelle Burnham is Professor of English at Santa Clara University, where she specializes in early American literature, Native American literature, transoceanic studies, and popular culture. She is the author of Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System and Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861 (both with the Univ. Press of New England). She has edited A Separate Star: Selected Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson (Heyday Press) and the 1767 novel The Female American (Broadview Press). She is currently working on a project that brings together literary history, book history, and digital humanities to recover the transoceanic genre of castaway fiction.