Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Impressions: Photography and Travel Writing, 1888-1894

ISBN-13: 9783030404932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str.

Carla Manfredi

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Stevenson and Early Photography in the Pacific Islands.- 2. "We are Savages": Cannibal Performances in the Marquesas.- 3. "An Extraordinary State of Affairs": the Hawaiian Embassy to Samoa.- 4. "Incongruities of Scale": Encountering the Atolls of Kiribati.- 5. "Native Movement": Islanders and the Janet Nicoll.- 6. "Little House in the Bush": Specters of Vailima.- 7. Conclusion.- 8. Appendix: About the Robert Louis Stevenson's Photograph Albums.

O autorze

Carla Manfredi's research is on Victorian literature, photography, and the history of colonialism in the Pacific Islands. She has published several articles on Stevenson's Pacific oeuvre.