Research Catalog

Title

Victorian coral islands of empire, mission, and the boys' adventure novel / Michelle Elleray.

Author

Elleray, Michelle Dawne, 1967-

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Description

ix, 229 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm.

Summary

"Attending to the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of adventure tales and missionary efforts. The volume draws on an evangelical narrative about the formation of coral islands to demonstrate that missionary investments in the socially marginal (the young, the working class, the racial other) generated new forms of agency that are legible in the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel, even as that agency was subordinated to Christian values identified with the British middle class. Situating novels by Frederick Marryat, R. M. Ballantyne and W. H. G. Kingston in the periodical culture of the missionary enterprise, this volume newly historicizes British children's textual interactions with the South Pacific and its peoples. Although the mid-Victorian authors examined here portray British presence in imperial spaces as a moral imperative, our understanding of the "adventurer" is transformed from the plucky explorer to the cynical mercenary through Robert Louis Stevenson, who provides a late-nineteenth-century critique of the imperial and missionary assumptions that subtended the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel of his youth"--

Series Statement

Studies in childhood, 1700 to the present

Uniform Title

Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Children's stories, English > History and criticism
• Adventure stories, English > History and criticism
• Children in literature
• Missionaries in literature
• Imperialism in literature
• National characteristics, English, in literature
• English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
• Adventure stories, English
• Children's stories, English
• English fiction
• Literature
• Islands of the Pacific > In literature
• Pacific Ocean > Islands of the Pacific

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-218) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- 1. The Juvenile Missionary Magazine: Agency and Discipline -- 2. Masterman Ready's Grave: Deliverance and the Sailor -- 3. The Coral Island: Savagery, Manliness and Faith -- 4. Slavery in the Pacific: "Do Right," or, "That's No Business of Mine" -- 5. The Ebb-Tide: Seeking Pearls.

Call Number

JFE 20-4856

ISBN

• 9780367235505
• 0367235501
• 9780429280351 (canceled/invalid)
• 0429280351 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000752816 (canceled/invalid)
• 100075281X (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000752908 (canceled/invalid)
• 1000752909 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000752991 (canceled/invalid)
• 1000752992 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2019055682
• 40029779414

OCLC

1135091906

Author

Elleray, Michelle Dawne, 1967- author.

Title

Victorian coral islands of empire, mission, and the boys' adventure novel / Michelle Elleray.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in childhood, 1700 to the present

Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-218) and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Other Form:

Online version: Elleray, Michelle Dawne, 1967- , Victorian coral islands of empire, mission, and the boys' adventure novel 1. New York : Routledge, 2020. 9780429280351 (DLC) 2019055683

Other Standard Identifier

40029779414

Research Call Number

JFE 20-4856