Title Literary culture and the Pacific : nineteenth-century textual encounters / Vanessa Smith

Published Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1998

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Description xiv, 296 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm Series Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 13 Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 13 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' Notes Bibliography: p271-292. - Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index Subject Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 -- Criticism and interpretation. Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 -- Knowledge -- Oceania Beachcombing -- In literature. European literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Exoticism in literature. Culture conflict in literature. SUBJECT Islands of the Pacific http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068616 -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011414 Islands of the Pacific http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068616 -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006345 LC no. 97007612 ISBN 0521573599

Other Titles Literary culture and the Pacific : 19th century textual encounters

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