The first monograph to trace the Pacific islands as represented through the lens of British fiction and non-fiction across the long nineteenth century.
The first monograph to trace the Pacific islands as represented through the lens of British fiction and non-fiction across the long nineteenth century.
Jennifer Fuller is Assistant Lecturer in English at Idaho State University. She became an English major by skipping out of chemistry labs to read Robert Louis Stevenson. Raised in Birmingham, AL, Dr. Fuller completed her undergraduate work at Furman University in South Carolina before moving west to do her graduate work at the University of Tulsa. She recently worked as an Assistant Professor of English at Warner University in Lake Wales, Florida.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction; 1. Moving missions and novel settlements: Early British Pacific propaganda (1796-1866); 2. Adventures in the Pacific: The influence of trade on the South Seas novel; 3. Islands of discovery: Scientific curiosity in the works of Darwin, Huxley, and Wells; 4. The price of paradise: Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and British expansion in the Pacific; 5. The Islanders Speak: Pacific reflections in the British press.
Introduction; 1. Moving missions and novel settlements: Early British Pacific propaganda (1796-1866); 2. Adventures in the Pacific: The influence of trade on the South Seas novel; 3. Islands of discovery: Scientific curiosity in the works of Darwin, Huxley, and Wells; 4. The price of paradise: Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and British expansion in the Pacific; 5. The Islanders Speak: Pacific reflections in the British press.
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