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Author: Michelle Burnham (Professor, English Department, Santa Clara University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.40cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 24.20cm
Weight: 0.604kg
ISBN: 9780198840893
ISBN 10: 0198840896
Pages: 302
Publication Date: 28 May 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
brilliant and transformative ... Burnham's historical and theoretical research for this project is vast and inspiring; the genre of the review does not do justice to the complex ideas that underpin the book and its epilogue. Transoceanic America is also clearly written and a pleasure to read, full of beautiful images and surprising connections to contemporary culture. The case it makes for using literature to enrich cognitive maps, both our own and those of our students, is timely and persuasive. * Anna Brickhouse, Early American Literature * 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 *
"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 * brilliant and transformative ... Burnham's historical and theoretical research for this project is vast and inspiring; the genre of the review does not do justice to the complex ideas that underpin the book and its epilogue. Transoceanic America is also clearly written and a pleasure to read, full of beautiful images and surprising connections to contemporary culture. The case it makes for using literature to enrich ""cognitive maps,"" both our own and those of our students, is timely and persuasive. * Anna Brickhouse, Early American Literature *"
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 *
Author Information
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.
