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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
[2016]
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| Series: | Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1bh2j0w |
Table of 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.