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

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.

Pages: 304

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: July 28, 2019

ISBN: 0198840896

ISBN 13: 9780198840893

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

Michelle Burnham

0/5 ( ratings)

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.

Pages: 304

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: July 28, 2019

ISBN: 0198840896

ISBN 13: 9780198840893

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