Bad colonists : the South Seas letters of Vernon Lee Walker & Louis Becke / Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves
- Bib ID:
- 1556489
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1999
- xxii, 163 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0822322579 (alkaline paper) (cloth)
- 0822322226 (alkaline paper) (paper)
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: Letter Writing and Colonial Selfhood
- 1. "An Awfully Bad Hand at Letter Writing": Vernon Lee Walker and Colonial History
- 2. The Letters of Vernon Lee Walker, 1878-1887
- 3. Self-Fashioning and Savagery: Louis Becke's Pacific Letters
- 4. The Letters of Louis Becke, 1880-1882
- 5. The Apotheosis of Savagery: Louis Becke's Pacific Tales
- Epilogue: Figures in History.
- Introduction : letter-writing and colonial selfhood
- An awfully bad hand at letter writing : Vernon Lee Walker and colonial history
- The letters of Vernon Lee Walker, 1878-1887
- Self-fashioning and savagery : Louis Becke's Pacific letters
- The letters of Louis Becke, 1880-1882
- The apotheosis of savagery : Louis Becke's Pacific tales
- Epilogue : figures in history.
- Notes:
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- Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke, almost all of which were written to their respective mothers, with commentary.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Also Titled:
- South Seas letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1999
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