Author: William GillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cook Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Gems from the Coral Islands
Author: William GillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cook Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Gems from the Coral Islands; Or, Incidents of Contrast Between Savage and Christian Life of the South Sea Islanders. (Comprising the New Hebrides Group, The Loyalty Group, New Caledonia Group.)
Author: William GILL (of Rarotonga.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Gems from the Coral Islands; Or, Incidents of Contrast Between Savage and Christian Life of the South Sea Islanders
Author: William GillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melanesia
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
White Savages in the South Seas
Author: Mel KernahanPublisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859849781
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Before getting tickets for that Tahitian holiday you've dreamed about, read this book." Publishers Weekly
Victorian Coral Islands of Empire, Mission, and the Boys’ Adventure Novel
Author: Michelle EllerayPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000752992
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Attending to the mid-Victorian boys’ adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of adventure tales and missionary efforts. The volume draws on an evangelical narrative about the formation of coral islands to demonstrate that missionary investments in the socially marginal (the young, the working class, the racial other) generated new forms of agency that are legible in the mid-Victorian boys’ adventure novel, even as that agency was subordinated to Christian values identified with the British middle class. Situating novels by Frederick Marryat, R. M. Ballantyne and W. H. G. Kingston in the periodical culture of the missionary enterprise, this volume newly historicizes British children’s textual interactions with the South Pacific and its peoples. Although the mid-Victorian authors examined here portray British presence in imperial spaces as a moral imperative, our understanding of the "adventurer" is transformed from the plucky explorer to the cynical mercenary through Robert Louis Stevenson, who provides a late-nineteenth-century critique of the imperial and missionary assumptions that subtended the mid-Victorian boys’ adventure novel of his youth.
Descriptive Catalogue of the Publications of the Presbyterian Board of Publication
Author: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication and Sabbath-School WorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Descriptive Catalogue of the Publications of the Presbyterian Board of Publication
Author: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of PublicationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presbyterianism
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: New South Wales Free Public Library, SydneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney, for the Years 1869-87
Author: Public Library of New South WalesPublisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Oceania and the Victorian Imagination
Author: Peter H. HoffenbergPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317086198
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all of which suggested to them that everything was possible there. This collection of essays focuses on Oceania’s impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing, photography, international exhibitions, literature, and the world of children. Each of these had significant impact. The literature discussed affected mainly the middle and upper classes, while exhibitions and photography reached down into the working classes, as did missionary presentations. The experience of children was central to the Pacific’s effects, as youthful encounters at exhibitions, chapel, home, or school formed lifelong impressions and experience. It would be difficult to fully understand the Victorians as they understood themselves without considering their engagement with Oceania. While the contributions of India and Africa to the nineteenth-century imagination have been well-documented, examinations of the contributions of Oceania have remained on the periphery of Victorian studies. Oceania and the Victorian Imagination contributes significantly to our discussion of the non-peripheral place of Oceania in Victorian culture.