Unsettled narratives : the Pacific writings of Stevenson, Ellis, Melville and London /
Acknowledgments ix. Introduction: The Written Pacific 1 (14). ``Talk languished on the beach'': The Possibility of Reciprocity in Robert Louis Stevenson's In the South Seas. 15 (58). ``These words are so changed in a native's mouth'': Contested Frames in William Ellis&#...
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. "Talk languished on the beach" : the possibility of reciprocity in Robert Louis Stevenson's In the south seas
- ch. 2. "These words are so changed in a native's mouth" : contested frames in William Ellis's Polynesian researches
- ch. 3. "Typee or Happar?" : the unsettling narrative of Typee
- ch. 4. "This is the book I write" : Jack London's strictly limited body.