Michael Boyden
Biographic Data
| ID | 282691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Boyden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyden |
| SIGNATURE | BOYDEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4533-6232 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Indigenous Sustainabilities as Analytic and Identity
This review essay interrogates the conceptual foundations of sustainability discourse by examining three recent monographs in American literary studies: Michelle Neely’s Against Sustainability (2020), Abby Goode’s Agrotopias (2022), and Mary Kuhn’s The Garden Politic (2023). While contemporary sustainability rhetoric is often dismissed as co-opted by corporate and institutional interests, these studies collectively seek to recover alternative gen…
Ecological Holism and Affirmative Biopolitics in John Steinbeck's To a God Unknown
Contains fulltext : 316170.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
The English Studies Interview: Merve Emre
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Johannes Voelz, Transcendental Resistance: The New Americanists & Emerson’s Challenge
This wide-ranging yet highly focused book is a challenge to read. Emerson scholars will find it stimulating for what it reveals about the New England poet-philosopher’s tactful negotiation of the needs of a developing American market culture. In order to get there, however, they should be prepared to work through the complex chapters in which Voelz dissects the hidden utopian assumptions of the so-called “New Americanist” critics through their en…
Digital Conceptual History and the Emergence of a Globalized Climate Imaginary
This article offers an exploratory quantitative analysis of the conceptual career of climate in US English over the period 1800-2010. Our aim is to qualify two, closely related arguments circulating in Environmental Humanities scholarship regarding the concept's history, namely that we only started to think of climate as a global entity aft er the introduction of general circulation models during the final quarter of the twentieth century, and, s…
Reverberations of Revolution: Transnational Perspectives, 1770-1850
Reverberations of Revolution: Transnational Perspectives, 1770-1850
Cutting across disciplines and linguistic borders, this book highlights revolutionary moments in Europe, the United States and the Caribbean between the mid-eighteenth century and the revolutions of 1848. Its chapters adopt transnational approaches to revolution to show how political uprisings often reverberated far beyond the borders of the states directly affected in the form of narratives, metaphors, translations, letters, pamphlets and dialog…
The Pathogenesis of the Modern Climate
This article offers an exploratory semantic analysis of the concept of climate through the lens of Reinhart Koselleck’s theory of historical semantics. After discussing reasons for its absence in Koselleck’s own scholarly investigations into the semantics of modernity, the article argues that the word climate acquired the properties of a freestanding concept in the course of the eighteenth century. The steep rise in the word’s relative frequency …
Introduction to Special Issue: The New Natural History
Introduction to Special IssueThe New Natural History Michael Boyden (bio) The last decade or so has witnessed an upsurge in publications by early Americanists on the topic of natural history in the American colonies. Scholars such as Andrew Lewis, Ralph Bauer, Thomas Hallock, Christoph Irmscher, Christopher Iannini, Susan Scott Parrish, Monique Allewaert, Michael Ziser, Kelly Wisecup, Sari Altschuler, Michelle Currie Navakas, and Greta LaFleur—th…
Crèvecœur's Ambivalent Cosmopolitanism and the Odoriferous Soil of Slavery
À ce jour, les spécialistes de Crèvecœur continuent à minimiser les versions françaises de Letters from an American Farmer , estimant que la vision originale qu’avait l’auteur de l’Amérique y paraît brouillée en réaction à l’optimisme cosmopolite des salons parisiens. Même si l’influence des attentes du lectorat français est indéniable, le présent article défend la thèse selon laquelle les versions françaises ont transformé le dessein initial de …
Crèvecœur’s Ambivalent Cosmopolitanism and the Odoriferous Soil of Slavery
A New Literary History of America
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history. In more than two hundred original essays, A New Literary History of America brings together the nati…
Translating the Watcher's Voice: Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao into Spanish
This article offers an analysis of the Spanish translation of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Dominican-American author Junot Díaz. We look at how the translation by Cuban author Achy Obejas affects the narrative situation, and in particular the solidarity relation between narrator and narratee. In the original, this solidarity relation depends on various forms of intra- and interlingual heteroglossia, which define the narrator's voice as…
Language ideologies in 'American' literary history
This article deals with the accommodation of linguistic alterity in US literary histories. It distinguishes between, on the one hand, a liberal language ideology that tends to domesticate the other by claiming neutrality toward language, and, on the other, a romantic ideology that articulates itself by 'foreignizing' the other and by making cultural groups appear more homogeneous and natural than they actually are. This conceptual apparatus is ap…
The institutional origins of American literary history
This article deals with the importance of institutions in the construction of literary classifications. Following Mary Douglas, the article offers a double-stranded perspective on institutions that stresses both their social and cognitive anchorage. This is applied to one particular case, namely the genealogy connecting Emerson (and the Transcendentalists) to Jonathan Edwards. The article shows how Perry Miller's 'discovery' of that lineage in 19…
Introduction to Special Issue: The New Natural History
Introduction to Special IssueThe New Natural History Michael Boyden (bio) The last decade or so has witnessed an upsurge in publications by early Americanists on the topic of natural history in the American colonies. Scholars such as Andrew Lewis, Ralph Bauer, Thomas Hallock, Christoph Irmscher, Christopher Iannini, Susan Scott Parrish, Monique Allewaert, Michael Ziser, Kelly Wisecup, Sari Altschuler, Michelle Currie Navakas, and Greta LaFleur—th…
Translating the Watcher's Voice: Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao into Spanish
This article offers an analysis of the Spanish translation of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Dominican-American author Junot Díaz. We look at how the translation by Cuban author Achy Obejas affects the narrative situation, and in particular the solidarity relation between narrator and narratee. In the original, this solidarity relation depends on various forms of intra- and interlingual heteroglossia, which define the narrator's voice as…
Language ideologies in 'American' literary history
This article deals with the accommodation of linguistic alterity in US literary histories. It distinguishes between, on the one hand, a liberal language ideology that tends to domesticate the other by claiming neutrality toward language, and, on the other, a romantic ideology that articulates itself by 'foreignizing' the other and by making cultural groups appear more homogeneous and natural than they actually are. This conceptual apparatus is ap…
The institutional origins of American literary history
This article deals with the importance of institutions in the construction of literary classifications. Following Mary Douglas, the article offers a double-stranded perspective on institutions that stresses both their social and cognitive anchorage. This is applied to one particular case, namely the genealogy connecting Emerson (and the Transcendentalists) to Jonathan Edwards. The article shows how Perry Miller's 'discovery' of that lineage in 19…
Language ideologies in 'American' literary history
This article deals with the accommodation of linguistic alterity in US literary histories. It distinguishes between, on the one hand, a liberal language ideology that tends to domesticate the other by claiming neutrality toward language, and, on the other, a romantic ideology that articulates itself by 'foreignizing' the other and by making cultural groups appear more homogeneous and natural than they actually are. This conceptual apparatus is ap…
Translating the Watcher's Voice: Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao into Spanish
This article offers an analysis of the Spanish translation of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Dominican-American author Junot Díaz. We look at how the translation by Cuban author Achy Obejas affects the narrative situation, and in particular the solidarity relation between narrator and narratee. In the original, this solidarity relation depends on various forms of intra- and interlingual heteroglossia, which define the narrator's voice as…
A New Literary History of America
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history. In more than two hundred original essays, A New Literary History of America brings together the nati…
Crèvecœur's Ambivalent Cosmopolitanism and the Odoriferous Soil of Slavery
À ce jour, les spécialistes de Crèvecœur continuent à minimiser les versions françaises de Letters from an American Farmer , estimant que la vision originale qu’avait l’auteur de l’Amérique y paraît brouillée en réaction à l’optimisme cosmopolite des salons parisiens. Même si l’influence des attentes du lectorat français est indéniable, le présent article défend la thèse selon laquelle les versions françaises ont transformé le dessein initial de …
Crèvecœur’s Ambivalent Cosmopolitanism and the Odoriferous Soil of Slavery
Introduction to Special Issue: The New Natural History
Introduction to Special IssueThe New Natural History Michael Boyden (bio) The last decade or so has witnessed an upsurge in publications by early Americanists on the topic of natural history in the American colonies. Scholars such as Andrew Lewis, Ralph Bauer, Thomas Hallock, Christoph Irmscher, Christopher Iannini, Susan Scott Parrish, Monique Allewaert, Michael Ziser, Kelly Wisecup, Sari Altschuler, Michelle Currie Navakas, and Greta LaFleur—th…
The Pathogenesis of the Modern Climate
This article offers an exploratory semantic analysis of the concept of climate through the lens of Reinhart Koselleck’s theory of historical semantics. After discussing reasons for its absence in Koselleck’s own scholarly investigations into the semantics of modernity, the article argues that the word climate acquired the properties of a freestanding concept in the course of the eighteenth century. The steep rise in the word’s relative frequency …
Reverberations of Revolution: Transnational Perspectives, 1770-1850
Reverberations of Revolution: Transnational Perspectives, 1770-1850
Cutting across disciplines and linguistic borders, this book highlights revolutionary moments in Europe, the United States and the Caribbean between the mid-eighteenth century and the revolutions of 1848. Its chapters adopt transnational approaches to revolution to show how political uprisings often reverberated far beyond the borders of the states directly affected in the form of narratives, metaphors, translations, letters, pamphlets and dialog…
Johannes Voelz, Transcendental Resistance: The New Americanists & Emerson’s Challenge
This wide-ranging yet highly focused book is a challenge to read. Emerson scholars will find it stimulating for what it reveals about the New England poet-philosopher’s tactful negotiation of the needs of a developing American market culture. In order to get there, however, they should be prepared to work through the complex chapters in which Voelz dissects the hidden utopian assumptions of the so-called “New Americanist” critics through their en…
Digital Conceptual History and the Emergence of a Globalized Climate Imaginary
This article offers an exploratory quantitative analysis of the conceptual career of climate in US English over the period 1800-2010. Our aim is to qualify two, closely related arguments circulating in Environmental Humanities scholarship regarding the concept's history, namely that we only started to think of climate as a global entity aft er the introduction of general circulation models during the final quarter of the twentieth century, and, s…
The English Studies Interview: Merve Emre
Item does not contain fulltext
Ecological Holism and Affirmative Biopolitics in John Steinbeck's To a God Unknown
Contains fulltext : 316170.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
Indigenous Sustainabilities as Analytic and Identity
This review essay interrogates the conceptual foundations of sustainability discourse by examining three recent monographs in American literary studies: Michelle Neely’s Against Sustainability (2020), Abby Goode’s Agrotopias (2022), and Mary Kuhn’s The Garden Politic (2023). While contemporary sustainability rhetoric is often dismissed as co-opted by corporate and institutional interests, these studies collectively seek to recover alternative gen…
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