Literary Culture and the Pacific

Vanessa (King's College, Cambridge) Smith

Cambridge University Press, 2005

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This 1998 book examines a range of nineteenth-century European accounts from the Pacific, depicting Polynesian responses to imported metropolitan culture, in particular its technologies of writing and print. It focuses on texts by beachcombers and missionaries, and the late Pacific writings of Robert Louis Stevenson.

ISBN-13
9780521022989
ISBN-10
0521022983
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2005
Publication date
2005-11-17
Pages
316
Dimensions
229x154x29
Weight
485