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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuller, Jenn, author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Islands of the Pacific--In literature.

Islands of the Pacific.

Oceania--In literature.

Oceania.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 195 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Summary:

The first monograph to trace the Pacific islands as represented through the lens of British fiction and non-fiction across the long nineteenth century.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017).

Includes bibliographical references (pages [180]-190) and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-2611-5

1-4744-2209-8

1-4744-1385-4