Dark paradise : Pacific Islands in the nineteenth-century British imagination / Jenn Fuller
- Bib ID:
- 7754351
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Fuller, Jenn, author
- Description:
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- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
- ©2016
- ix, 195 pages ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781474413848 (hardback)
- 1474413846 (hardback)
- Invalid ISBN:
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- 9781474413855 (webready PDF)
- 1474413854 (webready PDF)
- 9781474413862 (epub)
- 1474413862 (epub)
- Series:
- Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
- Summary:
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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 paradises or perfect sites for missionary endeavours, as the century progressed, their optimistic vision transformed to portray darker realities. As a result, these islands act as a 'breaking point' for British theories of imperialism, colonialism, and identity. The book traces the changing British attitudes towards imperial settlement as the early view of 'island as paradise' gives way to a fear of the hostile islanders and examines how this revelation undermined a key tenant of British imperialism -- that they were the 'superior' or 'civilized' islanders."--
- Full contents:
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- 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, Joseph Conrad and British expansion in the Pacific
- The islanders speak : Pacific reflections in the British press.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-190) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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