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

ISBN-13: 9783319983127 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str.

Carla Manfredi

Opis

This book tackles photography's role during Robert Louis Stevenson's travels throughout the Pacific Island region and is the first study of his family's previously unpublished photographs.

Recenzje

"Pacific Impressions offers a comprehensive and nuanced reading of Stevenson's experience and artistic endeavors in the Pacific Islands. Stevenson scholars will find a wealth of compelling material, both biographical and analytical. Manfredi also offers a model for Victorian studies of empire, paying just as close attention to local and Indigenous people and histories as she does to British perspectives." (Chris Thomas, Victorian Studies, Vol. 63 (1), 2020)

"Stevenson scholars as well as those broadly interested in the study of late 19th-century colonialism in the Pacific will benefit from the materials and insights in this volume." (L.M. Ratnapalan, The Journal of Pacific History, Vol. 55 (1), 2020)

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 Sāmoa.- 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.