Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters by Smith, Vanessa

Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521573597)

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Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters by Smith, Vanessa

Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters

$120.00
Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters by Smith, Vanessa

Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book examines a range of nineteenth-century European accounts from the Pacific that depict Polynesian responses to imported metropolitan culture, in particular its technologies of writing and print and how they were appropriated and interrogated by Pacific peoples. Examining accounts by beachcombers and missionaries, and offering a detailed discussion of the late Pacific writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vanessa Smith argues that the texts of contact and settlement are shaped at least as much by local contexts as by the agendas of their European authors.

Author: Vanessa Smith
ISBN-10: 0521573599
ISBN-13: 9780521573597
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/13/1998
Pages: 314
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

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