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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.
314 pages, 9 b/w illus. 1 map
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | January 13, 1998 |
ISBN13 | 9780521573597 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 314 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 22 mm · 630 g |