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Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific impressions
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- Book Synopsis
- This book tackles photography's role during Robert Louis Stevenson's travels throughout the Pacific Island region and is the first study of his family's previously unpublished photographs. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, the book integrates photographs with letters, non-fiction, and poetry, and includes much unpublished material. The original readings of photographs and non-fiction highlight Stevenson's engagement with colonial ideology and reality and advance new arguments about Victorian travel, settlement, and colonialisms in the Pacific. Like the Stevensons, the book moves from the Marquesas to the atolls of the Gilbert Islands in Micronesia; from the Kingdom of Hawai'i's political ambitions to Samoan plantations and the Stevensons' settlement at Vailima. Central to this study is the notion that Pacific history and Pacific Island cultures matter to the interpretation of Stevenson's work, and a rigorous historical and cultural contextualization ensures that local details structure literary and photographic interpretation. The book's historical grounding is key to its insightful conclusions regarding travel, settlement, photography, and colonialism.
- About The Author
- Carla Manfredi's research is on Victorian literature, photography, and the history of colonialism in the Pacific Islands. She has published several articles on Stevenson's Pacific oeuvre.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9783319983127
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan, (21 November 2018)
- Number of Pages
- 256
- Weight
- 486 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 210 x 148 x 22 mm
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