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Transoceanic America - Risk, Writing, and Revolution in the Global Pacific (Hardcover)
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Transoceanic America - Risk, Writing, and Revolution in the Global Pacific (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
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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.
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