| Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters Contributor(s): Smith, Vanessa (Author), Beer, Gillian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521573599 ISBN-13: 9780521573597 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 97007612 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" (1.39 lbs) 314 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book examines a range of nineteenth-century European accounts from the Pacific that depict Polynesian responses to imported metropolitan culture, in particular its technologies of writing and print and how they were appropriated and interrogated by Pacific peoples. Examining accounts by beachcombers and missionaries, and offering a detailed discussion of the late Pacific writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vanessa Smith argues that the texts of contact and settlement are shaped at least as much by local contexts as by the agendas of their European authors. |