The South Pacific Narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London : Race, Class, Imperialism.

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From 1888 to 1915 Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London were uniquely placed to witness and record the imperial struggle for the South Pacific. Engaging the major European colonial empires and the USA, the struggle questioned ideas of liberty, racial identity and class like few other arenas of the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Phillips, Lawrence
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.
Colección:Continuum literary studies.
Temas:
London, Jack > 1876-1916
Stevenson, Robert Louis > 1850-1894
Islands of the Pacific > In literature.
Pazifischer Raum.
Imperialismus
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London
  • America and Britain
  • The Significance of the Frontier in British and American History
  • The Pacific and Colonialism
  • Chapter 2: 'Race', Class and Imperialism in Stevenson's The Amateur Emigrant
  • Introduction: Identities, Public and Private
  • The Bourgeois Artist as Social Critic
  • Transgression and the Threat of De/class/ification
  • Imperial Critique as Class Discourse
  • Chapter 3: Jack London's The People of the Abyss: Socialism, Imperialism and the Bourgeois Ethnographer
  • Clothing, Status and Deception
  • Class Discourse as Imperial Critique
  • Chapter 4: Death, Disease and Paradise: A Parable of Imperial Expansion
  • 'Out of My Country and Myself I Go'
  • Pacific Travellers and Travel Writing
  • Textual Encounters, Real Lives
  • The Marquesas Islands
  • Chapter 5: The Inequities of Trade: Adventure Narratives, Ethics and Imperial Commerce in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Wrecker
  • The Miseducation of Loudon Dodd: From New World to Old
  • Standing on the Wall of Antoninus: Western Civilization in the Contact Zone
  • Opium: The 'Reality of Romance' and the Wreck of the Flying Scud
  • From Midway Island to Middle England: The Mystery of the Flying Scud
  • Chapter 6: The Indignity of Labour: Jack London's Adventure and Plantation Labour in the Solomon Islands
  • Chapter 7: Fragments of Empire, Fractured Identities
  • 'The Beach of Falesā'
  • Captain David Grief
  • The Ebb-Tide
  • Afterword
  • The South Pacific in the Twentieth Century
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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