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 (Lawrence Alfred), 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Continuum, 2012.
Colección:Bloomsbury literary studies series.
Temas:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, > 1850-1894 > Criticism and interpretation.
London, Jack, > 1876-1916 > Criticism and interpretation.
London, Jack, > 1876-1916
Stevenson, Robert Louis, > 1850-1894
Imperialism in literature.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Imperialism in literature
Literature
Islands of the Pacific > In literature.
Oceania > In literature.
Pacifique, Îles du > Dans la littérature.
Océanie > Dans la littérature.
Oceania
Pacific Ocean > Islands of the Pacific
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 'Race', class and imperialism in Stevenson's The amateur emigrant
  • Jack London's The people of the abyss: socialism, imperialism and the bourgeois ethnographer
  • Death, disease and paradise: a parable of imperial expansion
  • The inequities of trade: adventure narratives, ethics, and imperial commerce in Robert Louis Stevenson's The wrecker
  • The indignity of labour: Jack London's adventure and plantation labour in the Solomon Islands
  • Fragments of empire, fractured identities.

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