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  1. The South Pacific narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London
    race, class, imperialism
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Continuum, New York [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
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    Sprache: Englisch
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    ISBN: 144119956X; 9781441199560
    Schriftenreihe: Continuum literary studies
    Schlagworte: Ozeanien <Motiv>
    Weitere Schlagworte: Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); London, Jack (1876-1916)
    Umfang: 215 S.
  2. The South Pacific narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London
    race, class, imperialism
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Continuum, New York

    Includes bibliographical references and index From 1888 to 1915 Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London were uniquely placed to witness and record the imperial struggle for the South Pacific. Engaging the major European colonial empires and the USA,... mehr

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    Includes bibliographical references and index From 1888 to 1915 Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London were uniquely placed to witness and record the imperial struggle for the South Pacific. Engaging the major European colonial empires and the USA, the struggle questioned ideas of liberty, racial identity and class like few other arenas of the time.Exploring a unique moment in South Pacific and Western history through the work of Stevenson and London, this study assesses the impact of their national identities on works like The Amateur Emigrant and Adventure; discusses their attitudes towards colonialism, race and class; shows how they ne

     

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    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1441173382; 1441199284; 144119956X; 9781441173386; 9781441199287; 9781441199560
    Schriftenreihe: Continuum Literary Studies
    Schlagworte: Islands of the Pacific - In literature; Islands of the Pacific - In literature; Electronic books
    Umfang: vi, 215 p
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    Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London; America and Britain; The Significance of the Frontier in British and American History; The Pacific and Colonialism; Chapter 2: 'Race', Class and Imperialism in Stevenson's The Amateur Emigrant; Introduction: Identities, Public and Private; The Bourgeois Artist as Social Critic; Transgression and the Threat of De/class/ification; Imperial Critique as Class Discourse; Chapter 3: Jack London's The People of the Abyss: Socialism, Imperialism and the Bourgeois Ethnographer

    Clothing, Status and DeceptionClass Discourse as Imperial Critique; Chapter 4: Death, Disease and Paradise: A Parable of Imperial Expansion; 'Out of My Country and Myself I Go'; Pacific Travellers and Travel Writing; Textual Encounters, Real Lives - The Marquesas Islands; Chapter 5: The Inequities of Trade: Adventure Narratives, Ethics and Imperial Commerce in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Wrecker; The Miseducation of Loudon Dodd: From New World to Old; Standing on the Wall of Antoninus: Western Civilization in the Contact Zone; Opium: The 'Reality of Romance' and the Wreck of the Flying Scud

    From Midway Island to Middle England: The Mystery of the Flying ScudChapter 6: The Indignity of Labour: Jack London's Adventure and Plantation Labour in the Solomon Islands; Chapter 7: Fragments of Empire, Fractured Identities; 'The Beach of Falesā'; Captain David Grief; The Ebb-Tide; Afterword; The South Pacific in the Twentieth Century; Bibliography; Index;