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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
* Preface * Introduction: Transoceanic America * Part One: Connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic * 1: Narrative: Trade and Time in Early Pacific Travel Writing * 2: Numbers: Calculation and Speculation in the Eighteenth-Century Novel * 3: Politics: Violence and Gender in the Revolutionary Pacific * 4: Circles: Seduction and Rebellion in The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman * 5: Coils: Global Politics and Economic Futurity in Ormond * 6: Cycles: Atlantic Slavery and Pacific Botany in Obi * 7: Circuits: Female Bodies and Capitalist Drive in Secret History * Epilogue: Towards a Transoceanic American Literary History
* Preface * Introduction: Transoceanic America * Part One: Connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic * 1: Narrative: Trade and Time in Early Pacific Travel Writing * 2: Numbers: Calculation and Speculation in the Eighteenth-Century Novel * 3: Politics: Violence and Gender in the Revolutionary Pacific * 4: Circles: Seduction and Rebellion in The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman * 5: Coils: Global Politics and Economic Futurity in Ormond * 6: Cycles: Atlantic Slavery and Pacific Botany in Obi * 7: Circuits: Female Bodies and Capitalist Drive in Secret History * Epilogue: Towards a Transoceanic American Literary History
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