Dark paradise : Pacific Islands in the nineteenth-century British imagination /

Examines the way in which the British transformed the Pacific islands during the nineteenth century. The discovery of the Pacific islands amplified the qualities of mystery and exoticism already associated with 'foreign' islands. Their 'savage' peoples, their isolation, and their...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fuller, Jenn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Colección:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Temas:
1800-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
Literature
Literature and society
Islands of the Pacific > In literature.
Oceania > In literature.
Pacifique, Îles du > Dans la littérature.
Océanie > Dans la littérature.
Great Britain
Oceania
Pacific Ocean > Islands of the Pacific
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Moving missions and novel settlements : early British Pacific propaganda (1796-1866)
  • Adventures in the Pacific : the influence of trade on the South Seas novel
  • Islands of discovery : scientific curiosity in the works of Darwin, Huxley and Wells
  • The price of paradise : Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and British expansion in the Pacific
  • The islanders speak : Pacific reflections in the British press.

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