Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Oceania and the Victorian imagination : where all things are possible
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Ashgate
Place
Date
2013?
Physical Description
x, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781409457114
9781409457121
9781472404701
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
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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