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

Examines the way in which the British transformed the Pacific islands during the nineteenth century. The discovery of the Pacific islands amplified the qualities of mystery and exoticism already associated with 'foreign' islands. Their 'savage' peoples, their isolation, and their...

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Tác giả chính: Fuller, Jenn (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press [2016]
Loạt:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1bh2j0w
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  • The price of paradise : Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and British expansion in the Pacific
  • The islanders speak : Pacific reflections in the British press.