Oceania and the Victorian imagination : where all things are possible

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2013

Subject:

Oceania - In literature
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Oceania - In mass media
Islands of the Pacific - In literature
Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism
Children in literature

Contributor:

Fulton, Richard D.
Hoffenberg, Peter H.

ISBN:

9781409457114, 1409457117, 9781409457121, 1409457125, 9781472404701, 147240470X, 9781409457114 (hardcover : alk. paper), 1409457117 (hardcover : alk. paper), 9781409457121 (ebk - PDF), 1409457125 (ebk - PDF), 9781472404701 (ebk - ePUB), and 147240470X (ebk - ePUB)

Description:

x, 209 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Part I: Travel, exhibitions and photography -- Pacific phantasmagorias: Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific photography / Carla Manfredi -- "Greater Britain": late imperial travel writing and the settler colonies / Anna Johnston -- The South Seas Exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair, 1893 / Mandy Treagus -- Displaying an oceanic nation and society: the Kingdom of Hawai'i at nineteenth-century international exhibitions / Peter H. Hoffenberg -- Part II: Fiction and the Pacific -- "The White Lady and the Brown Woman": colonial masculinity and domesticity in Louis Beck's 'By Reef and Palm' (1894) / Sumangala Bhattacharya -- 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 -- At home in the empire: domesticity and masculine identity in 'Almayer's Folly' and "The Beach of Falesa?" / Ingrid Ranum -- Isolation and variation on Doctor Moreau's Oceanic Island / Genie Babb -- Part III: Childhood and children -- Cooks and queens and dreams: the South Sea Islands as fairy islands of fancy / Michelle Patricia Beissel Heath -- The South Seasin mid-Victorian children's imagination / Richard D. Fulton -- Watermarks on 'The Coral Island': the Pacific Island missionary as children's hero / Michelle Elleray -- "Turned topsy-turvy": William Howitt, antipodean colonial space and Victorian children's literature / Judith Johnston

Summary:

Publisher 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. This text contributes significantly to our discussion of the non-peripheral place of Oceania in Victorian culture

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

PR468.O24 O24 2013

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