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Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Smith, Vanessa (King's College, Cambridge)
Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Smith, Vanessa (King's College, Cambridge)
This 1998 book examines a range of nineteenth-century European accounts from the Pacific, depicting Polynesian responses to imported metropolitan culture, in particular its technologies of writing and print. It focuses on texts by beachcombers and missionaries, and the late Pacific writings of Robert Louis Stevenson.
316 pages, 9 b/w illus. 1 map
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | November 17, 2005 |
ISBN13 | 9780521022989 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 316 |
Dimensions | 154 × 229 × 29 mm · 485 g |
Series Editor | Beer, Gillian |