Literary culture and the Pacific
Literary culture and the Pacific: nineteenth-century textual encounters Vanessa Smith
Publisher: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 1998.
ISBN: 0521573599
DDC: 809.93329
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-292) and index.
Introduction: acts of reading -- 1. 'A gift of fabrication': the
beachcornber as bricoleur -- 2. Lip service and conversion -- 3.
'Other people's books': Stevenson's Pacific travels -- 4. Piracy and
exchange: Stevenson's Pacific fiction -- 5. In the press of events:
Stevenson's Pacific history -- After-word: 'the impediment of
tongues'
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