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Literary culture and the Pacific : nineteenth-century textual encounters
- Title
- Literary culture and the Pacific : nineteenth-century textual encounters / Vanessa Smith.
- Author
- Smith, Vanessa (Vanessa Jane)
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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- Description
- xiv, 296 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 13
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 13.
- Subject
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 > Knowledge > Oceania
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 > Criticism and interpretation
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- 1800-1899
- European literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Exoticism in literature
- Culture conflict in literature
- Culture shock in literature
- Littérature européenne > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Conflit culturel dans la littérature
- Culture shock in literature
- Culture conflict in literature
- European literature
- Exoticism in literature
- Intellectual life
- Literature
- Pazifischer Ozean Motiv
- Kulturkontakt
- Geschichte
- Culturele betrekkingen
- Letterkunde
- Islands of the Pacific in literature
- Islands of the Pacific > Intellectual life > 19th century
- Islands of the Pacific > In literature
- Pacifique, Îles du > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siècle
- Pacifique, Îles du > Dans la littérature
- Oceania
- Pacific Ocean > Islands of the Pacific
- Polynesier
- Europäer
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-292) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: acts of reading -- 1. 'A gift of fabrication': the beachcornber as bricoleur -- 2. Lip service and conversion -- 3. 'Other people's books': Stevenson's Pacific travels -- 4. Piracy and exchange: Stevenson's Pacific fiction -- 5. In the press of events: Stevenson's Pacific history -- After-word: 'the impediment of tongues'.
- ISBN
- 0521573599
- 9780521573597
- 9780521022989
- 0521022983
- LCCN
- 97007612
- OCLC
- ocm36407836
- 36407836
- SCSB-360790
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library