South Seas Encounters examines several key types of encounters between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United States in the formative nineteenth century. The eleven essays collected in this volume focus not only on the effect of the two powerful, industrialized colonial powers on the cultures of the Pacific.
South Seas Encounters examines several key types of encounters between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United States in the formative nineteenth century. The eleven essays collected in this volume focus not only on the effect of the two powerful, industrialized colonial powers on the cultures of the Pacific.
Richard Fulton earned his Ph.D. in English from Washington State University in 1975; his dissertation focused on periodical criticism of poetry in the 1870s. He is now a retired Academic Vice President, former President of both the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and VISAWUS, former editor of VPR, and continuing Victorian scholar working on Victorian childhood and the late Victorian military. He is author of some one hundred articles and reviews on Victorian Studies topics; in 2013 he collaborated with Peter Hoffenberg in editing Oceania and the Victorian Imagination: Where all things are possible. He is currently working on a book examining the culture of boyhood in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
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Table of Contents Introduction List of Illustrations Part One: Ethnographic Encounters Chapter One: "The Natives Have a Decided Feeling for Form:" A. C. Haddon, the Torres Strait(s) Expedition, and the Question of Primitive Art Amy Woodson-Boulton, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles Chapter Two: Macabre Encounters: Poisoned Arrows and Poisoned Ethnographies from Victorian Melanesia Jane Samson, University of Alberta Part Two: Hawai`i and the British Empire Chapter Three: A Meeting of "Sister Sovereigns:" Hawaiian Royalty at Victoria's Golden Jubilee Lindsay Puawehiwa Wilhelm, University of California, Los Angeles Chapter Four: At Home with the Victorians? The Kingdom of Hawai`i at the London Fisheries Exhibition, 1883 Peter H. Hoffenberg, University of Hawai`i, Manoa Chapter Five: Robert Louis Stevenson's Grass Hut in Hawai`i Richard J. Hill, Chaminade University Chapter Six: Lad O' Pairts in Paradise: A Scottish Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Kingdom of Hawai`i Bud (Duane) Clark, University of Hawai`i, Maui College Part Three: Hawai`i and the American Republic Chapter Seven: Ernest Hogan's Colored All-Stars Minstrel Show: A case of racial discrimination in the Republic of Hawai`i Allison Paynter, Chaminade University Chapter Eight: Emancipation, Education and Hampton's Southern Workman: Hawai'i, the Reconstruction South and Indian Territory Teresa Zackodnik, University of Alberta Part Four: Science Encounters Chapter Nine: The Malay Archipelago and the Poetics of Nature Alexis Harley, La Trobe University Chapter Ten: Constance Gordon-Cumming and the Boring Volcano: Victorian Conceptions of Kilauea Kent Linthicum, Oklahoma State University Chapter Eleven: Nineteenth-Century Cultural and Geohistorical Interpretations of Kilauea Philip K. Wilson, Retired History Department Chair, Current Bookstore Proprietor Brief Biographies of Contributors Index
Table of Contents Introduction List of Illustrations Part One: Ethnographic Encounters Chapter One: "The Natives Have a Decided Feeling for Form:" A. C. Haddon, the Torres Strait(s) Expedition, and the Question of Primitive Art Amy Woodson-Boulton, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles Chapter Two: Macabre Encounters: Poisoned Arrows and Poisoned Ethnographies from Victorian Melanesia Jane Samson, University of Alberta Part Two: Hawai`i and the British Empire Chapter Three: A Meeting of "Sister Sovereigns:" Hawaiian Royalty at Victoria's Golden Jubilee Lindsay Puawehiwa Wilhelm, University of California, Los Angeles Chapter Four: At Home with the Victorians? The Kingdom of Hawai`i at the London Fisheries Exhibition, 1883 Peter H. Hoffenberg, University of Hawai`i, Manoa Chapter Five: Robert Louis Stevenson's Grass Hut in Hawai`i Richard J. Hill, Chaminade University Chapter Six: Lad O' Pairts in Paradise: A Scottish Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Kingdom of Hawai`i Bud (Duane) Clark, University of Hawai`i, Maui College Part Three: Hawai`i and the American Republic Chapter Seven: Ernest Hogan's Colored All-Stars Minstrel Show: A case of racial discrimination in the Republic of Hawai`i Allison Paynter, Chaminade University Chapter Eight: Emancipation, Education and Hampton's Southern Workman: Hawai'i, the Reconstruction South and Indian Territory Teresa Zackodnik, University of Alberta Part Four: Science Encounters Chapter Nine: The Malay Archipelago and the Poetics of Nature Alexis Harley, La Trobe University Chapter Ten: Constance Gordon-Cumming and the Boring Volcano: Victorian Conceptions of Kilauea Kent Linthicum, Oklahoma State University Chapter Eleven: Nineteenth-Century Cultural and Geohistorical Interpretations of Kilauea Philip K. Wilson, Retired History Department Chair, Current Bookstore Proprietor Brief Biographies of Contributors Index
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