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Transoceanic America

By Michelle Burnham

Transoceanic America

By Michelle Burnham

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Transoceanic America offers a new approach to American literature by emphasizing the material and conceptual interconnectedness of the Atlantic and Pacific worlds. These oceans were tied together economically, textually, and politically, through such genres as maritime travel writing, mathematical and navigational schoolbooks, and the relatively new genre of the novel. Especially during the age of revolutions in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, long-distance transoceanic travel required calculating and managing risk in the interest of profit. The result was the emergence of a newly suspenseful form of narrative that came to characterize capitalist investment, political revolution, and novelistic plot. The calculus of risk that drove this expectationist narrative also concealed violence against vulnerable bodies on ships and shorelines around the world. A transoceanic American literary and cultural history requires new non-linear narratives to tell the story of this global context and to recognize its often forgotten textual archive.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
302
Release Date:
2019-07-28
Publication Date:
2019-07-28
Publisher:
OXFORD UNIV PR
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198840896
ISBN13:
9780198840893
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
619 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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