The Pacific Tale Short Fiction from 1890-1950 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Treagus, Mandy (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:XIII, 231 p.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
Edition:1st ed. 2025.
Series:Maritime Literature and Culture,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-92658-7
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Pacific Tale
  • 2. Emptying the Imperial Romance: Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Ebb-Tide
  • 3. Mapping, Mastery and Islander Women: The Traders’ Voice in Louis Becke’s By Reef and Palm
  • 4. Jack London in the Solomons: Race, Labour and Melanesianism in South Sea Tales
  • 5. Late-Colonial Breakdown in the Tropics: W. Somerset Maugham’s The Trembling of a Leaf
  • 6. The Pacific as Polynesian Belle: James A. Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific and Military Occupation
  • 7. Beyond the Pacific Tale.