Dark Paradise : : Pacific Islands in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination / / Jennifer Fuller.
Examines the way in which the British transformed the Pacific islands during the nineteenth centuryThe discovery of the Pacific islands amplified the qualities of mystery and exoticism already associated with 'foreign' islands. Their 'savage' peoples, their isolation, and their s...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
|
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index