Dark paradise : Pacific Islands in the nineteenth-century British imagination / Jenn Fuller.
Dark paradise : Pacific Islands in the nineteenth-century British imagination / Jenn Fuller.
Dark paradise : Pacific Islands in the nineteenth-century British imagination / Jenn Fuller.
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Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
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H 2017/852
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English
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ix, 195 pages ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Moving missions and novel settlements : early British Pacific propaganda (1796-1866) -- Adventures in the Pacific : the influence of trade on the South Seas novel -- Islands of discovery : scientific curiosity in the works of Darwin, Huxley and Wells -- The price of paradise : Robert Louis Stevenson...
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Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Date Published
[2016]
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"The discovery of the Pacific islands amplified the qualities of mystery and exoticism already associated with 'foreign' islands. Their 'savage' peoples, their isolation, and their sheer beauty fascinated British visitors across the long nineteenth century. Dark Paradise argues that while the British originally believed the islands to be commercial...
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Dark paradise : Pacific Islands in the nineteenth-century British imagination / Jenn Fuller.
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Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-190) and index.
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©2016
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H 2017/852
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74VKVR8yXaPd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVR8yXaPd
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9781474413848
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991024075218302626
