Transoceanic America : risk, writing, and revolution in the global Pacific

Transoceanic America : risk, writing, and revolution in the global Pacific / Michelle Burnham

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...

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Main Author: Burnham, Michelle (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford studies in American literary history.
Subjects:
1700-1899
American literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Intercultural communication in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Intercultural communication in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Narrative: trade and time in early Pacific travel writing
  • Numbers: calculation and speculation in the eighteenth-century novel
  • Politics: violence and gender in the revolutionary Pacific
  • Circles: seduction and revolution in The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman
  • Coils: financial speculation and global revolution in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond
  • Cycles: Atlantic slavery and Pacific botany in William Earle's OBI
  • Circuits: female bodies and capitalist drive in Leonora Sansay's Secret History.

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