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Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific impressions = photography and travel writing, 1888-1894 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific impressions/ by Carla Manfredi.
Reminder of title:	photography and travel writing, 1888-1894 /
Author:	Manfredi, Carla.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2018.,
Description:	xviii, 256 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Travel writing - History and criticism. -
Subject:	Islands of the Pacific - Relations - United States -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98313-4
ISBN:	9783319983134

Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific impressions = photography and travel writing, 1888-1894 /
Manfredi, Carla.

Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific impressionsphotography and travel writing, 1888-1894 /[electronic resource] :by Carla Manfredi. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - xviii, 256 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture..

1. Introduction: Stevenson and Early Photography in the Pacific Islands -- 2. "We are Savages": Cannibal Performances in the Marquesas -- 3. "An Extraordinary State of Affairs": the Hawaiian Embassy to Sāmoa -- 4. "Incongruities of Scale": Encountering the Atolls of Kiribati -- 5. "Native Movement": Islanders and the Janet Nicoll -- 6. "Little House in the Bush": Specters of Vailima -- 7. Conclusion -- 8. Appendix: About the Robert Louis Stevenson's Photograph Albums.

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Robert Louis Stevenson's travels throughout the Pacific Island region and is the first study of his family's previously unpublished photographs.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disciplinary boundaries, the book integrates photographs with letters, non-fiction, and poetry, and includes much unpublished material.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.

ISBN: 9783319983134

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-98313-4doiSubjects--Personal Names:

1211243
Stevenson, Robert Louis,
1850-1894--Travel--Islands of the Pacific.Subjects--Topical Terms:

954903
Travel writing
--History and criticism.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

961964
Islands of the Pacific
--Relations--United States

LC Class. No.: PR5497 / .M364 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 779.99

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