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Richard Beale Davis Prize, 2011-12: Michelle Burnham

Richard Beale Davis Prize, 2011-12: Michelle Burnham Richard Beale Davis Prize, 211–12 0 Michelle Burnham “Trade, Time, and the Calculus of Risk in Early Pacific Travel Writing” (EAL 46.3) by Michelle Burnham, professor of English at Santa Clara Uni - versity, has been awarded the Richard Beale Davis Prize for the best article published in Early American Literature during the past two years. Among a group of impressive essays, Burnham’s is remarkable for its pathbreak- ing orientation, archival richness, and theoretical subtlety. Succinctly put, B urnham makes a powerful case for the need to make a Pacific turn in early American literary studies. The essay surveys a range of Pacific travel narratives from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, texts that are oen b ft ulky and, for many readers, aesthetically dull and uninter - esting, notwithstanding their relation to an important “period of inter - national competition for scientific discovery and commercial protfi ” in the Pacific. Along the way, Burnham urges somewhat counterintuitively that the narratives’ expansiveness is precisely the point; sizable prots a fi nd “new” knowledge that Pacific voyages produced depended on narrative “patience and prolongation,” an effect—and ae ff ct—of the interdynamic between economics and aesthetics. Short-t erm loss (as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

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Richard Beale Davis Prize, 211–12 0 Michelle Burnham “Trade, Time, and the Calculus of Risk in Early Pacific Travel Writing” (EAL 46.3) by Michelle Burnham, professor of English at Santa Clara Uni - versity, has been awarded the Richard Beale Davis Prize for the best article published in Early American Literature during the past two years. Among a group of impressive essays, Burnham’s is remarkable for its pathbreak- ing orientation, archival richness, and theoretical subtlety. Succinctly put, B urnham makes a powerful case for the need to make a Pacific turn in early American literary studies. The essay surveys a range of Pacific travel narratives from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, texts that are oen b ft ulky and, for many readers, aesthetically dull and uninter - esting, notwithstanding their relation to an important “period of inter - national competition for scientific discovery and commercial protfi ” in the Pacific. Along the way, Burnham urges somewhat counterintuitively that the narratives’ expansiveness is precisely the point; sizable prots a fi nd “new” knowledge that Pacific voyages produced depended on narrative “patience and prolongation,” an effect—and ae ff ct—of the interdynamic between economics and aesthetics. Short-t erm loss (as

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