Gretchen J Woertendyke
Biographic Data
| ID | 6742553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gretchen J Woertendyke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gretchen J |
| FAMILY NAME | Woertendyke |
| SIGNATURE | WOERTENDYKE G J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Secret History in the Early Nineteenth-Century Americas
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Fugitive Slave Narratives and Atlantic Conspiracies
This chapter traces the influence of the Haitian Revolution throughout the long nineteenth century on fugitive slave narratives and the development of the gothic romance in the nineteenth century. By “fugitive” I mean to highlight the absence of such narratives from critical histories of the form, and the ways in which they fail to conform generically to traditional slave narratives such as Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. By identifying th…
“The Sea Is History”
In this chapter, I read Scottish writer John Howison’s “The Florida Pirate” and its relationship to the writing of two prominent nineteenth-century American writers, Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville. What the explicit fictionality of the romance offers, however, is a more seamless negotiation of geography and history than is possible in the didactic, ostensibly nonfictional fugitive slave narrative. The violence of slavery is registered throug…
Hemispheric Regionalism
This broad-ranging study reconfigures US literature as a product of hemispheric relations. 'Hemispheric Regionalism' brings together a rich archive of popular culture, fugitive slave narratives, advertisements, political treatises, and literature to construct a new literary history from a hemispheric and regional perspective
Geography, genre, and hemispheric regionalism
This essay introduces the concept of hemispheric regionalism as a way of understanding the expansive scales of oceanic and hemispheric perspectives. Drawing on Bruno Latour's actor-network theory, hemispheric regionalism flattens the map, and makes visible three things: (1) the different coordinates in play; (2) the importance of the sea in these relations; and (3) the vehicles that travel between different geographic regions. Genre is that vehic…
Geography, genre, and hemispheric regionalism
This essay introduces the concept of hemispheric regionalism as a way of understanding the expansive scales of oceanic and hemispheric perspectives. Drawing on Bruno Latour's actor-network theory, hemispheric regionalism flattens the map, and makes visible three things: (1) the different coordinates in play; (2) the importance of the sea in these relations; and (3) the vehicles that travel between different geographic regions. Genre is that vehic…
Geography, genre, and hemispheric regionalism
This essay introduces the concept of hemispheric regionalism as a way of understanding the expansive scales of oceanic and hemispheric perspectives. Drawing on Bruno Latour's actor-network theory, hemispheric regionalism flattens the map, and makes visible three things: (1) the different coordinates in play; (2) the importance of the sea in these relations; and (3) the vehicles that travel between different geographic regions. Genre is that vehic…
Fugitive Slave Narratives and Atlantic Conspiracies
This chapter traces the influence of the Haitian Revolution throughout the long nineteenth century on fugitive slave narratives and the development of the gothic romance in the nineteenth century. By “fugitive” I mean to highlight the absence of such narratives from critical histories of the form, and the ways in which they fail to conform generically to traditional slave narratives such as Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. By identifying th…
“The Sea Is History”
In this chapter, I read Scottish writer John Howison’s “The Florida Pirate” and its relationship to the writing of two prominent nineteenth-century American writers, Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville. What the explicit fictionality of the romance offers, however, is a more seamless negotiation of geography and history than is possible in the didactic, ostensibly nonfictional fugitive slave narrative. The violence of slavery is registered throug…
Hemispheric Regionalism
This broad-ranging study reconfigures US literature as a product of hemispheric relations. 'Hemispheric Regionalism' brings together a rich archive of popular culture, fugitive slave narratives, advertisements, political treatises, and literature to construct a new literary history from a hemispheric and regional perspective
Secret History in the Early Nineteenth-Century Americas
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Romance (2 works) · Anachronism (1 work)