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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Autor principal: Fuller, Jenn (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press [2016]
Col·lecció:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1bh2j0w