Dark Paradise: Pacific Islands in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination

ISBN-13: 9781474426114 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 384 str.

Jennifer Fuller;Arild Fetveit

Opis

The first monograph to trace the Pacific islands as represented through the lens of British fiction and non-fiction across the long nineteenth century.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Moving missions and novel settlements: Early British Pacific propaganda (1796-1866); 2. Adventures in the Pacific: The influence of trade on the South Seas novel; 3. Islands of discovery: Scientific curiosity in the works of Darwin, Huxley, and Wells; 4. The price of paradise: Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and British expansion in the Pacific; 5. The Islanders Speak: Pacific reflections in the British press.