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The South Pacific narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London : race, class, imperialism

Title
The South Pacific narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London : race, class, imperialism / Lawrence Phillips.
Author
Phillips, Lawrence (Lawrence Alfred), 1966-
Publication
London ; New York : Continuum, c2012.

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Description
215 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Continuum literary studies
Uniform Title
Continuum literary studies.
Subject
  • Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 > Criticism and interpretation
  • London, Jack, 1876-1916 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Imperialism in literature
  • Islands of the Pacific > In literature
  • Oceania > In literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
'Race', class and imperialism in Stevenson's The amateur emigrant -- Jack London's The people of the abyss: socialism, imperialism and the bourgeois ethnographer -- Death, disease and paradise: a parable of imperial expansion -- The inequities of trade: adventure narratives, ethics, and imperial commerce in Robert Louis Stevenson's The wrecker -- The indignity of labour: Jack London's adventure and plantation labour in the Solomon Islands -- Fragments of empire, fractured identities.
Call Number
JFE 12-5954
ISBN
  • 9781441199560 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 144119956X (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2012005163
OCLC
YBP 2012005163
Author
Phillips, Lawrence (Lawrence Alfred), 1966-
Title
The South Pacific narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London : race, class, imperialism / Lawrence Phillips.
Imprint
London ; New York : Continuum, c2012.
Series
Continuum literary studies
Continuum literary studies.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 12-5954
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