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Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters

Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters

Smith, Vanessa
Beer, Gillian

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu, Book 13

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521573599
ISBN13: 9780521573597
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 8 1998
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.39
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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