Michelle Burnham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Burnham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Burnham |
| SIGNATURE | BURNHAM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Santa Clara University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Adrift in Empire: Literature and Migration in the Long Eighteenth Century
The scope and shape of migration during the long eighteenth century were fundamentally transformed by the technology of the ship, as was migration’s felt experience. This chapter situates migration literature from this period within the force fields of transoceanic global capitalism and imperial expansion and recognizes that those who were pressed into movement by these forces from above also resisted them from below. Although the word “migration…
Transoceanic America: Risk, Writing, and Revolution in the Global Pacific
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 nine…
Obeah’s unproductive bodies: A response to “Obeah: knowledge, power, and writing in the early Atlantic World”
In her discussion of the 1827 novel Hamel, the Obeah Man in this special issue, Janelle Rodriques describes obeah as a “recognisable phenomenon” that “operated from unintelligible assumptions.” This description points toward the fascinating strangeness of obeah – the way in which outsiders could so easily become preoccupied by its incomprehensibility – while also suggesting the challenge of writing about it: we can see obeah but we can never quit…
Samuel Gorton's Leveller Aesthetics and the Economics of Colonial Dissent
Samuel Gorton arrived in New England in 1637, not long after the exile of Roger Williams, on the heels of the banishment of John Wheelwright, and just before the banishment of Anne Hutchinson. Though he would quickly follow in this tradition of exiled New England dissenters, Gorton has historically had the status of a relatively minor character in the drama of seventeenth-century New England dissent. The few accounts of him that have circulated t…
Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System
Folded Selves radically refigures traditional portraits of seventeenth-century New England literature and culture by situating colonial writing within the spatial, transnational, and economic contexts that characterized the early-modern theorized by Immanuel Wallerstein and others. Michelle Burnham rethinks American literary history and the politics of colonial dissent, and her book breaks new ground in making the economic relations of investment…
However extravagant the pretension”: Bivocalism and US nation‐building in a narrative of the life of Mrs Mary Jemison
Over a period of 3 days in November 1823, Mary Jemison delivered an oral account of her life to Dr James Seaver, who published the resulting Narrative of the Life of Mrs Mary Jemison in 1824. At the time of her interview with Seaver, Jemison had lived for nearly 70 years with the Seneca Indians, since being taken captive at the age of fifteen by the Shawnee and French during the Seven Years' War. When Jemison was sold by the Shawnee to the Seneca…
Republic of Letters: The American Intellectual Community, 1775-1865
Book Review| March 01 2001 Republic of Letters: The American Intellectual Community, 1775-1865 By Gilman M. Ostrander. Madison, Wisc.: Madison House. 1999. xvi, 379 pp.$35.95. Michelle Burnham Michelle Burnham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 186–187. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-1-186 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citati…
Captivity & Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682- 1861
Journal Article Captivity & Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682–1861. By Michelle Burnham. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1997. xii, 211 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-87451-818-0.) Get access Shirley Samuels Shirley Samuels Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1765–1766, https://doi.org…
Merchants, Money, and the Economics of "Plain Style" in William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation
Research Article| December 01 2000 Merchants, Money, and the Economics of “Plain Style” in William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation Michelle Burnham Michelle Burnham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 695–720. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-695 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Michelle Burnham; Merchants, Money, and t…
Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861
Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861
In a radically new interpretation and synthesis of highly popular eighteenth- and nineteenth-century genres, Michelle Burnham examines the literature of captivity, and, using Homi Bhabha's concept of interstitiality as a base, provides a valuable redescription of the ambivalent origins of the United States national narrative. Stories of colonial captives, sentimental heroines, or fugitive slaves embody a binary division between captive and captor…
Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861
I Lied All the Time: "Trickster Discourse and Ethnographic Authority in "Crashing Thunder
Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of an American Indian is based on a life story written by the Winnebago Indian Sam Blowsnake that was solicited, translated, and edited by the anthropologist Paul Radin. Like so many Indian autobiographies that are produced out of such cross-cultural exchanges and collaborations, Crashing Thunder includes a preface and introduction written by the anthropologist-editor in which he works to establish of the narra…
Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation
Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861
Within a short time after this raid but in what seems an immeasurable cultural distance, Rowlandson would be sewing shirts for and declining tobacco from the Wampanoag sachem Metacom, whom the English called King Philip.King Philip's War erupted in June 1675 and was followed by a series of surprise raids like this February 10 one by Narragansett Indians on the frontier settlement of Lancaster.A number of southern New England tribes had joined wit…
Between England and America: Captivity, Sympathy, and the Sentimental Novel
That Pale Mother Rising: Sentimental Discourses and the Imitation of Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century America
The Limits of Liberal Discourse: Non/White Women of the Republic 2. Charlotte TempleOs Remains 3. Revivification and Utopian Time: Poe versus Stowe 4. Stange Coincidence: Disavowal and History in Hawthorne and Cummins 5. Your Mother Is Here: Harriet Jacobs and the Decommodification of Motherhood Postscript: Postmodern Subjectivity and Virtual Motherhood Notes Works Cited Index
Loopholes of Resistance: Harriet Jacobs' Slave Narrative and the Critique of Agency in Foucault
Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory - Volume 49, Number 2, Summer 1993
Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861
Within a short time after this raid but in what seems an immeasurable cultural distance, Rowlandson would be sewing shirts for and declining tobacco from the Wampanoag sachem Metacom, whom the English called King Philip.King Philip's War erupted in June 1675 and was followed by a series of surprise raids like this February 10 one by Narragansett Indians on the frontier settlement of Lancaster.A number of southern New England tribes had joined wit…
Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System
Folded Selves radically refigures traditional portraits of seventeenth-century New England literature and culture by situating colonial writing within the spatial, transnational, and economic contexts that characterized the early-modern theorized by Immanuel Wallerstein and others. Michelle Burnham rethinks American literary history and the politics of colonial dissent, and her book breaks new ground in making the economic relations of investment…
I Lied All the Time: "Trickster Discourse and Ethnographic Authority in "Crashing Thunder
Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of an American Indian is based on a life story written by the Winnebago Indian Sam Blowsnake that was solicited, translated, and edited by the anthropologist Paul Radin. Like so many Indian autobiographies that are produced out of such cross-cultural exchanges and collaborations, Crashing Thunder includes a preface and introduction written by the anthropologist-editor in which he works to establish of the narra…
Obeah’s unproductive bodies: A response to “Obeah: knowledge, power, and writing in the early Atlantic World”
In her discussion of the 1827 novel Hamel, the Obeah Man in this special issue, Janelle Rodriques describes obeah as a “recognisable phenomenon” that “operated from unintelligible assumptions.” This description points toward the fascinating strangeness of obeah – the way in which outsiders could so easily become preoccupied by its incomprehensibility – while also suggesting the challenge of writing about it: we can see obeah but we can never quit…
Samuel Gorton's Leveller Aesthetics and the Economics of Colonial Dissent
Samuel Gorton arrived in New England in 1637, not long after the exile of Roger Williams, on the heels of the banishment of John Wheelwright, and just before the banishment of Anne Hutchinson. Though he would quickly follow in this tradition of exiled New England dissenters, Gorton has historically had the status of a relatively minor character in the drama of seventeenth-century New England dissent. The few accounts of him that have circulated t…
However extravagant the pretension”: Bivocalism and US nation‐building in a narrative of the life of Mrs Mary Jemison
Over a period of 3 days in November 1823, Mary Jemison delivered an oral account of her life to Dr James Seaver, who published the resulting Narrative of the Life of Mrs Mary Jemison in 1824. At the time of her interview with Seaver, Jemison had lived for nearly 70 years with the Seneca Indians, since being taken captive at the age of fifteen by the Shawnee and French during the Seven Years' War. When Jemison was sold by the Shawnee to the Seneca…
Merchants, Money, and the Economics of "Plain Style" in William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation
Research Article| December 01 2000 Merchants, Money, and the Economics of “Plain Style” in William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation Michelle Burnham Michelle Burnham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 695–720. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-695 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Michelle Burnham; Merchants, Money, and t…
Loopholes of Resistance: Harriet Jacobs' Slave Narrative and the Critique of Agency in Foucault
Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory - Volume 49, Number 2, Summer 1993
Between England and America: Captivity, Sympathy, and the Sentimental Novel
That Pale Mother Rising: Sentimental Discourses and the Imitation of Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century America
The Limits of Liberal Discourse: Non/White Women of the Republic 2. Charlotte TempleOs Remains 3. Revivification and Utopian Time: Poe versus Stowe 4. Stange Coincidence: Disavowal and History in Hawthorne and Cummins 5. Your Mother Is Here: Harriet Jacobs and the Decommodification of Motherhood Postscript: Postmodern Subjectivity and Virtual Motherhood Notes Works Cited Index
Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation
Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861
Within a short time after this raid but in what seems an immeasurable cultural distance, Rowlandson would be sewing shirts for and declining tobacco from the Wampanoag sachem Metacom, whom the English called King Philip.King Philip's War erupted in June 1675 and was followed by a series of surprise raids like this February 10 one by Narragansett Indians on the frontier settlement of Lancaster.A number of southern New England tribes had joined wit…
Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861
I Lied All the Time: "Trickster Discourse and Ethnographic Authority in "Crashing Thunder
Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of an American Indian is based on a life story written by the Winnebago Indian Sam Blowsnake that was solicited, translated, and edited by the anthropologist Paul Radin. Like so many Indian autobiographies that are produced out of such cross-cultural exchanges and collaborations, Crashing Thunder includes a preface and introduction written by the anthropologist-editor in which he works to establish of the narra…
Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861
Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861
In a radically new interpretation and synthesis of highly popular eighteenth- and nineteenth-century genres, Michelle Burnham examines the literature of captivity, and, using Homi Bhabha's concept of interstitiality as a base, provides a valuable redescription of the ambivalent origins of the United States national narrative. Stories of colonial captives, sentimental heroines, or fugitive slaves embody a binary division between captive and captor…
Captivity & Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682- 1861
Journal Article Captivity & Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682–1861. By Michelle Burnham. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1997. xii, 211 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-87451-818-0.) Get access Shirley Samuels Shirley Samuels Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1765–1766, https://doi.org…
Merchants, Money, and the Economics of "Plain Style" in William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation
Research Article| December 01 2000 Merchants, Money, and the Economics of “Plain Style” in William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation Michelle Burnham Michelle Burnham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 695–720. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-695 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Michelle Burnham; Merchants, Money, and t…
However extravagant the pretension”: Bivocalism and US nation‐building in a narrative of the life of Mrs Mary Jemison
Over a period of 3 days in November 1823, Mary Jemison delivered an oral account of her life to Dr James Seaver, who published the resulting Narrative of the Life of Mrs Mary Jemison in 1824. At the time of her interview with Seaver, Jemison had lived for nearly 70 years with the Seneca Indians, since being taken captive at the age of fifteen by the Shawnee and French during the Seven Years' War. When Jemison was sold by the Shawnee to the Seneca…
Republic of Letters: The American Intellectual Community, 1775-1865
Book Review| March 01 2001 Republic of Letters: The American Intellectual Community, 1775-1865 By Gilman M. Ostrander. Madison, Wisc.: Madison House. 1999. xvi, 379 pp.$35.95. Michelle Burnham Michelle Burnham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 186–187. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-1-186 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citati…
Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System
Folded Selves radically refigures traditional portraits of seventeenth-century New England literature and culture by situating colonial writing within the spatial, transnational, and economic contexts that characterized the early-modern theorized by Immanuel Wallerstein and others. Michelle Burnham rethinks American literary history and the politics of colonial dissent, and her book breaks new ground in making the economic relations of investment…
Samuel Gorton's Leveller Aesthetics and the Economics of Colonial Dissent
Samuel Gorton arrived in New England in 1637, not long after the exile of Roger Williams, on the heels of the banishment of John Wheelwright, and just before the banishment of Anne Hutchinson. Though he would quickly follow in this tradition of exiled New England dissenters, Gorton has historically had the status of a relatively minor character in the drama of seventeenth-century New England dissent. The few accounts of him that have circulated t…
Obeah’s unproductive bodies: A response to “Obeah: knowledge, power, and writing in the early Atlantic World”
In her discussion of the 1827 novel Hamel, the Obeah Man in this special issue, Janelle Rodriques describes obeah as a “recognisable phenomenon” that “operated from unintelligible assumptions.” This description points toward the fascinating strangeness of obeah – the way in which outsiders could so easily become preoccupied by its incomprehensibility – while also suggesting the challenge of writing about it: we can see obeah but we can never quit…
Transoceanic America: Risk, Writing, and Revolution in the Global Pacific
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 nine…
Adrift in Empire: Literature and Migration in the Long Eighteenth Century
The scope and shape of migration during the long eighteenth century were fundamentally transformed by the technology of the ship, as was migration’s felt experience. This chapter situates migration literature from this period within the force fields of transoceanic global capitalism and imperial expansion and recognizes that those who were pressed into movement by these forces from above also resisted them from below. Although the word “migration…
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