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Oceania and the Victorian imagination : where all things are possible

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  • Description

    "Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all of which suggested to them that everything was possible there. This collection of essays focuses on Oceania's impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing, photography, international exhibitions, literature, and the world of children. Each of these had significant impact.

    The literature discussed affected mainly the middle and upper classes, while exhibitions and photography reached down into the working classes, as did missionary presentations. The experience of children was central to the Pacific's effects, as youthful encounters at exhibitions, chapel, home or school formed lifelong impressions and experience."--Back cover.

  • Place
    Burlington, Vermont, United States Farnham, England, United Kingdom
  • Other Id

    PR468.O24 OCE (Library of Congress Call Number)

    83291 (Cat ID)

    83261 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

    Publications

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type

    book

  • Name/Title
    Oceania and the Victorian imagination : where all things are possible
  • Primary Maker

    Peter Hoffenberg (Editor of compilation)

    Richard Fulton (Editor of compilation)

  • Contributor/Publisher
    Ashgate
  • Place
    Burlington, Vermont, United States Farnham, England, United Kingdom
  • Date
    2013?
  • Physical Description

    x, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

  • ISBN/ISSN
    9781409457114
    9781409457121
    9781472404701
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category

    English literature--19th century--History and criticism

    Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century

  • Content
    Part 1: Travel, exhibitions and photography
    1. Pacific phantasmagorias: Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific photography / Carla Manfredi
    2. "Greater Britain": late imperial travel writing and the settler colonies / Anna Johnston
    3. The South Seas Exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair, 1893 / Mandy Treagus
    4. Displaying an oceanic nation and society: the Kingdom of Hawai'i at nineteenth-century international exhibitions / Peter H. Hoffenberg
    Part 2: Fiction and the Pacific
    5. "The White Lady and the Brown Woman": colonial masculinity and domesticity in Louis Beck's 'By Reef and Palm' (1894) / Sumangala Bhattacharya
    6. Who's who in "The Isle of Voices"? How Victorian Robert Louis Stevenson viewed Pacific Islanders' perceptions of Victorians and of themselves / Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega
    7. At home in the empire: domesticity and masculine identity in 'Almayer's Folly' and "The Beach of Falesa?" / Ingrid Ranum
    8. Isolation and variation on Doctor Moreau's Oceanic Island / Genie Babb
    Part 3: Childhood and children
    9. Cooks and queens and dreams: the South Sea Islands as fairy islands of fancy / Michelle Patricia Beissel Heath
    10. The South Seas in mid-Victorian children's imagination / Richard D. Fulton
    11. Watermarks on 'The Coral Island': the Pacific Island missionary as children's hero / Michelle Elleray
    12. "Turned topsy-turvy": William Howitt, antipodean colonial space and Victorian children's literature / Judith Johnston.
  • Public Access Text

    [Keywords: Oceania - In literature; Oceania - In mass media; Islands of the Pacific - In literature]

    Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-199) and index.

  • Collection Type
    Reading Room
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023
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