Trade, Time, and the Calculus of Risk in Early Pacific Travel Writing

Burnham, Michelle

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“…The same applies to the transoceanic, both transatlantic and transoceanic "hav[ing] generated a vocabulary of circulation, flow, movement" (Manning and Taylor 2007, 4). Both approaches share many questions and concerns (see Burnham 2011), yet transpacific literary studies have sought to counterbalance the weight that transatlantic studies as a research paradigm had gained. They respond to the significant political and economic transatlantic bonds since World War II, which may appear and even threaten to overshadow the Pacific Rim as an equally rich site of cultural production.…”

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0. Introduction: Transatlantic North American Studies

Straub¹

2016

Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies

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This Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies is part of De Gruyter's Handbooks of English and American Studies: Text and Theory series. It responds to the considerable surge of interest in transatlantic literary and cultural studies that has impacted the discipline of North American Studies for the last twenty years. Like many other approaches that fall within the orbit of what is usually called the 'transnational turn,' transatlantic studies seek to give accounts of literary and cultural developments and phenomena now that 'nation' has become a heavily contested concept, replacing the nation-state with the Atlantic world as a site of cultural production.Transatlantic studies have provided important new perspectives on both North American and English (whereby is meant both British and Irish, unless specified differently) literature, producing a multitude of publications and research projects exploring periods, aesthetic developments, genres, the works and artistic biographies of individual authors as well as literary culture in a broad sense. Adopting a bifocal perspective, scholars have examined the complex processes of intellectual and material exchange defining the Atlantic world ever since the days of its exploration and their effect on literary writing. Rather than dwelling on comparisons or engaging with the notion of 'influence,' transatlantic literary studies seek to understand North American and English literature as irreducibly linked with each other by virtue of historical and cultural ties and pay special attention to the many refractions and mutual interferences that have characterized both traditions. This has led to a revision of literary history, a rethinking of preconceived ideas of the canon and national literature, a new approach to genres and texts and a reconsideration of the Anglo-American literary market and its manifold processes of production, distribution, reception and criticism.This handbook combines articles that present some of the crucial concepts, debates and topics in transatlantic literary studies, thereby reflecting on the added benefit of a distinct transatlantic perspective in contradistinction to other related approaches similarly interested in literature as a transnational phenomenon, such as 'comparative (American) studies,' 'transnationalism' or 'post-colonialism.' For example, contributions contained in this volume examine periods in literary and cultural history when transatlantic relations were particularly dense (such as the colonial period), literary movements (such as modernism or romanticism) and individual authors (e.g., Henry James) with strong transatlantic profiles, as well as genres that

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0. Introduction: Transatlantic North American Studies

Straub¹

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Cross‐Cultural Encounters in Early American Literatures

Wisecup¹

2020

A Companion to American Literature

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Pepys Island as a Pacific stepping stone: the struggle to capture islands on early modern maps

Parker¹

2018

Br J Hist Sci

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This paper will investigate how geographic features were recorded on maps in the eighteenth century in order to outline the construction of geographic knowledge by British mapmakers. Due to practical and economic factors, early modern cartography was a conservative practice based on source compilation and comparison. For the Pacific region especially, the paucity of first-hand observations and the conflicting nature of those observations rendered the world's largest ocean difficult to chart and prone to the retention of mythical continents, passages and islands. After a discussion of the practical and economic reasons why geographic features were difficult to revise on maps, the article focuses on a case study to show how geographic enigmas could be placed and persist. It will use Pepys Island to illustrate the ways in which a chimeric feature could become instilled in geographic parlance.

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Trade, Time, and the Calculus of Risk in Early Pacific Travel Writing

Cited by 10 publications

References 26 publications

0. Introduction: Transatlantic North American Studies

0. Introduction: Transatlantic North American Studies

Cross‐Cultural Encounters in Early American Literatures

Pepys Island as a Pacific stepping stone: the struggle to capture islands on early modern maps

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