The South Seas : a reception history from Daniel Defoe to Dorothy Lamour / Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brawley, Sean, 1966- author.

Dixon, Chris, 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oceania--In literature.

Oceania.

Oceania--In art.

Oceania--History.

Oceania--In motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, [Maryland] : Lexington Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">The South Seas </span><span>is an innovative work of cultural history, tracing the ways in which the idea of "the South Seas" has been understood and transmitted through Western culture since the eighteenth century. </span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Beginnings; Chapter Two: America's South Seas; Chapter Three: Herman Melville's Pacific Imaginings; Chapter Four: San Francisco, Art, and Robert Louis Stevenson; Chapter Five: Finding New Guinea; Chapter Six: The Colonial Endeavor and Australia's South Seas; Chapter Seven: The Fair, the Stage, and the Song; Chapter Eight: The Great War and the Lost Generation; Chapter Nine: A South Seas Education; Chapter Ten: South Seas Tourism; Chapter Eleven: Hollywood Encounters the South Seas; Chapter Twelve: Cinematic Escapes

Chapter Thirteen: HMAV Bounty and the Great DepressionChapter Fourteen: Pardon My Sarong; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Brawley, Sean, 1966- South Seas : a reception history from Daniel Defoe to Dorothy Lamour.

ISBN:

1-4985-1514-2